To critique ArriveCan’s eye\u002Dwatering price tag, over the Thanksgiving weekend a single techie managed to duplicate the app. Read more
In Tribalscale’s case, they were trying to make the point that Ottawa maybe isn’t very good at technology procurement. The goal of this was to show how smart and talented the Canadian tech community is and offer up a new resource to help with the procurement of technology services for the Canadian government,” wrote CEO Sheetal Jaitly in a statement.
The federal government managed to outsource the app’s development to no less than 23 separate companies, eight of which raked in commissions of more than $1 million. The largest single beneficiary was GCStrategies, a company headquartered in a rural Ottawa house that appears to specialize largely in federal tech contracts. So far, GCStrategies has collected $9 million for work related to ArriveCan.
First launched in April 2020 and kept mandatory until Oct. 1, 2022, ArriveCan spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic as a compulsory public health screening requirement for travellers entering Canada. This would come to include functioning as the Canadian Border Service Agency’s sole recognized method of checking vaccine passports; anyone looking to bypass the app and present paper credentials were either turned away or ordered into quarantine.
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