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It’s bad enough that the government’s single email project is running at least 18 months late. Now Shared Services is facing an even more difficult job: The computer services agency is trying to squeeze the work being done by hundreds of aging data centres into a handful of new super centres by 2020. The technical risks are high reports the Citizen’s James Bagnall, and budgets tight thanks to cost-cutting by the former Conservative government. The timelines are slipping and the project already appears short of funds.

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After the pummeling it received this month from Auditor General Michael Ferguson, Shared Services Canada will be happy to focus on its next big project.

Unfortunately, any respite is likely to be brief.

The project itself looks pretty straightforward. Sometime in the next few weeks the government’s computer services agency is expected to award a $450 million, 25-year contract to expand and maintain a flagship data centre at Base Borden, Ont. It’s the context surrounding this procurement that’s problematic for Shared Services.