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Warship contract pause lifted
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Andrea Gunn (agunn@herald.ca)

Published: Dec 11 at 12:38 p.m.
Updated: Dec 11 at 1:32 p.m.

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal is no longer asking the federal government to halt awarding a definition contract in its massive multibillion-dollar warship procurement.
The tribunal, an independent quasi-judicial body dealing with matters of international trade, wrote a letter to Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) late last month ordering the department to postpone the award of any contracts related to the Canadian Surface Combatant project while it investigated a complaint from competing bidder Alion Canada.
In a letter to PSPC dated Dec. 10, the CITT says its original postponement of award of contract direction issued to the federal government has been rescinded further the government “having certified in writing that the above procurement is urgent and that a delay in awarding the contract would be contrary to the public interest.”
Though the CITT is is no longer asking the federal government to postpone awarding a contract, Alion’s complaint to the CITT is still active and under investigation.
In October, a bid from Lockheed Martin Canada was identified by the federal government as the preferred design for Canada’s new fleet of warships after a lengthy and sensitive competition. The Canadian Surface Combatant project is the largest procurement in Canadian history and will see 15 warships built at Irving Shipyards in Halifax for between $56 billion and $60 billion.
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the type 26 should not have been selected as not a proven design compared to the other designs that are in use now.

Anyway, that means that the statement that the Type 26 is superior regarding ASW is based on a mixture of marketing promises, hopes and assumptions.

Complaint about Canada's warship procurement dismissed
David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen
Updated: February 1, 2019
The awarding of a contract for a new warship fleet moved one step closer to reality after a trade tribunal rejected a complaint from one of the bidders that the process was flawed.
The Canadian government hopes to award the contract to Lockheed Martin Canada in the coming months for the Canadian Surface Combatant. That $60 billion project will see the construction of 15 warships in the largest single government purchase in Canadian history.
Lockheed is offering Canada the Type 26 warship designed by BAE in the United Kingdom.
But last year, Alion, one of the companies that submitted a bid on the project, filed a complaint with the Canadian International Trade Tribunal alleging the process was flawed and that BAE’s Type 26 can’t meet Canadian requirements. Alion has also filed a legal challenge in federal court, asking for a judicial review of the decision by Irving and the government to select the BAE design. Alion argues the Type 26 cannot meet the stated mandatory requirements, including speed, that Canada set out for the new warship, so it should be disqualified.
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The decision was made before Helge Ingstad sunk - and she sunk because of a collision with a large, 112,939 t, tanker, which holed several compartments below water, which would have sunk nearly every ship including also much larger ships.

Liberals sign Canadian Surface Combatant contract- deal to be announced Friday
David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen
Updated: February 7, 2019
The Canadian Surface Combatant contract was signed Thursday by the Liberal government. The contact with Irving and the Lockheed Martin-BAE consortium was negotiated in near record time.

The signing of the contract will be announced by Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough at the Irving yard in Halifax on Friday.

That $60 billion project will see the eventual construction of 15 warships in the largest single government purchase in Canadian history.

Lockheed offered Canada the Type 26 warship designed by BAE in the United Kingdom. Irving is the prime contractor and the vessels will be built at its yard.

Public Services and Procurement Canada did not respond to a request for comment.

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