The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy PDF Download

The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Canadian International Council, its Senate or its Board of Directors, or the views of the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. [...] This paper analyzes the state of the various shipbuilding projects within it, assesses the seriousness of the reported problems, and examines the government's options. [...] In fact Dan Ross, DND's Associate Deputy Minister Materiel whose group was responsible for creating much of the new model, argued the simultaneous failures of the first Joint Supply Ship Project and the Coast Guard's Mid-Shore Patrol Vessel in 2009, he termed the results "shipwrecks," drove the need for the current shipbuilding strategy.9 That earlier JSS project saw the two competing firms submit [...] This allows the firm to study the design, and then do a detailed costing of the work needed to actually build it.16 When complete, this should then allow both the government and the shipyard to conduct informed negotiations over the final build contract. [...] It has been suggested that initially both designs were withdrawn after the foreign firms balked at the price being offered and the conditions demanded by the Canadian procurement system.19 Thankfully, at the re-launch of the JSS project, the government had funded a purely Canadian design from BMT Fleet Technology (BMT) in part to validate the capabilities the Navy demanded.