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I can say, however, that we have imposed contractual penalties on the Hewlett-Packard-Steria consortium in order to punish it, on the one hand, for its inability to bring the system up to the contractually required level at the end of the contractual phase of the operational tests on the ST and, on the other – for the time being, in any case – for the delays caused in the internal VIS tests.

Maximum filling level test: the purpose of the test is to provide evidence that the system, which prevents overfilling of the container, works adequately and that the level of hydrogen during the filling procedure never causes the opening of the pressure relief devices.

(Return tabled) Question No. 88 Mr. Garry Breitkreuz: With regard to the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Canadian Firearms Registration System (CFRS) Alternate Services Delivery (ASD) contract that was eventually awarded to Team Centra (a consortium of CGI Group and BDP Business Data Services Limited) in 2002: (a) were bidders required to agree to pay a penalty of $30,000 per day for every day their system was not implemented after the Service Effective Date (SED) to defray costs of paying two vendors, E.D.S. of Canada Ltd (EDS) and Team Centra, at the same time and, if so, was this clause or a similar penalty clause carried forward ...[+++]into the contractual agreement between Team Centra and the Crown; (b) what was the official Contract Notification Date (CND) as required by the RFP; (c) what was the exact contracted SED; (d) in accordance with the RFP requirement, how much has Team Centra paid to the Crown based on the contracted SED; (e) how much has the Crown paid to EDS, Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP since the original SED of the ASD contract with Team Centra; (f) what deliverables were provided by EDS in return for these payments; (g) what deliverables were provided by Team Centra in return for these payments; (h) is the anticipated overlap of the two systems (CFRS I and CFRS II) still in accordance with the requirement in the RFP; (i) was the intent of the RFP to ensure no payment was made to the “Systems Integrator” until the system was delivered and, if so, when was the system delivered and what was the ongoing monthly charge to the Crown from Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP and what was the purpose of these charges; (j) has the user acceptance testing taken place on the Team Centra Application Code; (k) what was the value of the EDS Change Request to incorporate Bill C-10A amendments into the CFRS I system and why was this request needed; (l) what is the estimated dollar value and revised end date for the contracts currently under review with Team ...

In Lithuania, there has been an open tender to test filters, in addition to which rating systems and recommendations to the public and ISPs concerning filters and rating systems will be published.

Fresh ties can therefore be expected, or old ones could be strenghtened, between ; - the Commission of the European Communities and the Na- tional Bureau of Standards, under the US Department of Commerce; - CEN/CENELEC, the ECPT and the American National Standards Institute, BELL Communications Research Inc (BELLCORE) and the Exchange Carriers Standards Association (ECSA); - European testing and type-approval laboratories and the Corporations for Open Systems (COS) in the USA.

Fresh ties can therefore be expected, or old ones could be strenghtened, between ; - the Commission of the European Communities and the Na- tional Bureau of Standards, under the US Department of Commerce; - CEN/CENELEC, the ECPT and the American National Standards Institute, BELL Communications Research Inc (BELLCORE) and the Exchange Carriers Standards Association (ECSA); - European testing and type-approval laboratories and the Corporations for Open Systems (COS) in the USA.