Status Report on Transformational and Major Crown Projects

Project name

Regional Accommodations Projects

Description

The Regional Accommodations Projects are meant to strengthen the emergency management capacity within Public Safety Canada's regional offices. This initiative consists of co-locating regional offices, improving communications and information technology capabilities as well as conducting essential renovations to retrofit operations facilities to meet the accommodation guidelines for Federal Emergency Operations Centres (FEOC).

Project outcomes

Integrated Public Safety Canada teams in the regions with strong leadership.

Performance indicators:

• Number of Public Safety Canada offices consolidated
• Leadership positions established and staffed

The recipients of this project are the Public Safety Canada regional offices and the department at large.

Strengthen the emergency management capacity within Public Safety Canada's regional offices.

Performance indicators:

• Number of Public Safety Canada offices consolidated
• Leadership positions established and staffed

Industrial benefits

Given that this sub-project is conducted within the region, local contractors and suppliers are being awarded contracts to complete the refit construction work. The local economy has been stimulated in the Toronto, Ontario area.  

Sponsoring department

Public Safety Canada

Contracting authority

Public Works and Government Services Canada

Participating departments

Public Safety Canada, Shared Services Canada and Public Works and Government Services Canada

Prime contractor

Public Works and Government Services Canada manages all major contracts. For this project, Govan Brown has been awarded the tender through Dream Management (Landlord).

Major subcontractors

Subcontractors are engaged through Govan Brown and Dream Management. Shared Services Canada engaged CBCI to design and install Boardroom equipment.

Project phase

This initiative was composed of a series of six sub-projects (Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Regina, Fredericton, and Toronto) that are similar in nature for each centre. All of the sub-projects are completed.

Major milestones

Toronto, Ontario – Completed in March 2015.

Progress report and explanation of variances

• Treasury Board approved the regional co-location project with an estimated cost of $10.7M over the 2008-2014 timeframe. 
• Since the outset of this project, Public Safety Canada experienced several scheduling delays, which directly impacted the annual distribution of funds. A portion of the funds were reallocated to fiscal year 2013-14.  The Regional Transformation (Toronto consolidation) was completed by March 31, 2015.  
• Public Safety Canada used internal resources of $1.2M to cover the cost for the Toronto consolidation Regional Transformation.