CBC News has learned that key players in Ontario's eHealth spending controversy are now one step away from winning a new lucrative eHealth contract.

eHealth Ontario hand-picked the Courtyard Group for nearly $2 million in untendered contracts back in 2008.

Those contracts helped trigger one of the McGuinty government's biggest scandals.

This past February, TELUS Corporation bought Courtyard, taking on 30 of its staff. Two of them, Michael Guerriere and Dave Wattling, are now top executives with TELUS Health Solutions.

This week, eHealth Ontario announced that TELUS is one of only two companies qualified to build the province's drug information system. The government won't say how much the contract could be worth, but a similar system in Newfoundland and Labrador cost $25 million.

"It's an interesting set of circumstances that has led one group to now be in a position to make even more money from the same program that has been disgraced," said Conservative accountability critic Lisa MacLeod.

A TELUS spokesperson said Courtyard's past role in eHealth should not hinder the company's ability to win new contracts.

The only other firm short-listed for the drug-information-system contract is a B.C.-based company called Maximus.

The winner is due to be chosen later this year.