A $3-billion ship building contract was overpriced, warned Canadian government advisers, but the deal was signed anyway two days later. The warning was contained in documents obtained by the public broadcaster, the CBC, under Canada’s Access to Information Act.
The number of man-hours quoted by Irving Shipbuilding was “very high and considerably more than we would have expected for a shipbuilding program for vessels of the size and complexity of the AOPS,” said the report by International Marine Consultants of Vancouver.
AOPS refers to Arctic offshore patrol ships which the Canadian government has ordered to enhance its arctic capabilities and assert sovereignty over the region.
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