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Public Services and Procurement Canada has yet to figure out how to proceed on the troubled purchase of Standard Military Pattern trucks for the Canadian Army.

In July the Conservative government announced that Mack Defense had won the $834 million contract to provide 1,500 trucks.

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But the Canadian International Trade Tribunal recently upheld a complaint from Oshkosh that the procurement was flawed. In its ruling the CITT is calling on PSPC to re-evaluate Oshkosh’s truck design. The Ottawa Citizen has reported that if that re-evaluation shows the company’s truck should have won the contract, then the CITT recommends the government compensate Oshkosh “for the profits it would have received had it been properly awarded the contract.”

There are also a number of other ways to deal with the situation, according to the CITT. But they all involve Oshkosh walking away with some cash to compensate the company for their involvement in this problem procurement.