Audit of Consulting Services Procurement at Global Affairs Canada

An internal audit report examines the procurement of consulting services by Global Affairs Canada over the last five fiscal years. The objective was to determine whether the procurement process complies with applicable authorities and maintains integrity. The report is published by Global Affairs Canada under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing compliance with procurement regulations based on the audit's findings
• Analyzing government spending patterns on consulting services over a five-year period
• Studying internal control frameworks for public sector procurement processes

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific five-year fiscal period for temporal analysis
• Explicitly states the audit objective to assess compliance and integrity

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the specific five-year audit window

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada

Collection Method

Internal audit

Time Range

Last five fiscal years

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 17:11:57.341111; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada