(Ottawa) The Treasury Board says it has found no evidence of political interference in the awarding of federal contracts to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
Last year, the media highlighted the rapid growth in the value of federal contracts awarded to McKinsey since the Liberals came to power in 2015.
In January, the Prime Minister then asked the President of the Treasury Board, Mona Fortier, and the Minister of Procurement, Helena Jaczek, to examine the process for awarding these contracts.
The final report of this review, released Tuesday, indicates that the various departmental audits found no evidence of political interference or damage to the integrity of the federal procurement process.
But the audits revealed that “certain administrative requirements and procedures had not been systematically followed”, confirming the preliminary findings published in March.
The government says the firm McKinsey has received at least 116.8 million federal contracts since 2015. This represents a small fraction of the contracts awarded by Ottawa to consulting firms.