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[Public Services and Procurement Canada graphic]

[Music plays]

[Scene: interior of a Government of Canada co-working space during business hours. Government employees collaborate using their laptops, tablets, phones, and an augmented-reality headset.]

Imagine Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) in the year 2025.

We’re using the latest technology and tools to work and deliver services in innovative new ways.

[Text on screen: Our digital foundation is solid: 5G network, wall-to-wall Wi-Fi, industry-leading technology and software, latest mobile tools and apps.]

Let’s have a look at what our digital future could look like and dream a little. Or a lot.

[New scene: interior of Daniel’s home office. He works at his desktop computer while his dog sleeps on a couch.]

Meet Daniel, a Senior Project Manager in Real Property in Montréal.

[Text on screen: June 03, 2025]

[A notification for an incoming call appears on Daniel’s computer.]

He gets the call that the refit project is a go and the timelines are tight.

[A speech bubble appears over Daniel. He says, “That’s fine. We’d better start now.”]

[New scene: an animated directory of Daniel’s team appears, detailing each member’s name and title. A photo of the team member accompanies each entry. Daniel scrolls through the directory and starts a video call with the team.]

[Text on screen: The team: Juan, Designer; Jules, Procurement Officer; Kamila, Architect; Marie, Engineer; Omar, Environmental Specialist; Pauline, Client Liaison Officer; Pierre, Facility Manager]

[New scene: Daniel sits at his computer; he is on a video call with the team.]

Daniel meets with the team to get the refit underway.

[A speech bubble appears over Daniel. He says, “The timelines are tight, but we can do this.”]

It’s a complex one, an old building with heritage designation and 5 government tenants.

[A speech bubble appears over Omar, the team’s Environmental Specialist. He says, “We need enough time to green the building.”]

The team quickly lays out a roadmap and divides up the tasks using an advanced project management tool.

[Daniel minimizes the video call and opens a project management tool. The tool shows a task list and a progress bar. The progress bar provides an overview of the project . A selection of upcoming tasks are visible as large cards providing a name and image; Daniel can click on these cards for more details.]

[Text on screen: Project management tool. Project overview. Tasks: The team, the space, smart tech.]

[New scene: Interior of the refit space, which has been taken down to the wall studs and wiring during construction. Several team members are on site, while the rest of the team connects via a video call overlaid onto the environment using augmented reality.]

[Text on screen: June 27, 2025 – Call active]

The refit is well underway, and the team meets virtually to see the progress.

Kamila, Juan, and Marie are on site, wearing mixed-reality goggles to tour the team through the refit, zooming in on key features.

They bring up the building information and modelling software, a sophisticated tool used over a building’s lifecycle.

[Using augmented reality, a 3D floorplan appears in their environment. It highlights their current location and rotates to emphasize the layout and orientation of the space.]

They review 3D floorplans and make key decisions on the spot.

[New scene: Daniel is working on his laptop at a picnic table in his backyard.]

Daniel remotely accesses the building’s motion and occupancy sensor data.

[On his laptop screen, Daniel reviews bar charts that detail the number of bookings requested, year over year, for meeting rooms and collaboration rooms respectively. There are no years where meeting room bookings have exceeded the building’s capacity. Comparatively, there is only 1 year where collaboration rooms have not been booked beyond the building’s capacity.]

[Text on screen: Occupancy data: Meeting rooms, bookings, 2019 to 2025, capacity; collaboration rooms, bookings, 2019 to 2025, capacity]

Just as he suspected, the collaboration rooms have been historically overbooked.

[Daniel opens a video call with Kamila, the team’s architect.]

[Text on screen: Kamila, Architect. (Leave call)]

He asks Kamila, the team’s architect, to increase this space in the new design.

[New scene: interior of a conference room in another government building. Pauline, the team’s Client Liaison Officer, stands at the front of the room, controlling a presentation. Several team members are seated at the conference table in person, while others, including a tenant from Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada, connect remotely.]

Text on screen: Get your head in the cloud.

Pauline leads a workshop to co-design the new space together.

[A speech bubble appears over Pauline. She says, “We’re meeting on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk).”]

Everyone is at the virtual table: the PSPC team, 5 government tenants, and external consultants.

[A speech bubble appears over Pauline. She says, “We’ve put accessibility first in the design.”]

[4 telepresence robots, being used by both PSPC team members and clients, roll up to the conference table.]

Everyone is logged on to the project’s dedicated and secure collaboration space in the cloud.

[Several connectivity icons, as well as a 3D view of the building’s exterior, are displayed by a projector mounted on the conference table.]

Here, they can chat together and access large architectural drawings and project roadmaps.

They can even view construction progress in real-time from cameras on site.

[Pauline changes the presentation to a live video feed of the refit site. As the camera pans over the scene, it overlays a visualisation of the completed concept.]

[Text on screen: Live view. Concept.]

Pauline presents the team’s design for the space, getting instant feedback.

[A speech bubble appears over one of the clients, who has connected using a telepresence robot. She says, “The collaboration space is great.”]

[New scene: Pierre, the team’s Facility Manager, is outside of the refit building. He holds a controller for a drone.]

After a windstorm, Pierre gets an alert: the roof needs repairs.

[A drone with a camera launches and flies toward the building’s roof. The drone’s camera transmits live video to the controller’s screen.]

He launches a drone to record video of the roof damage and instantly shares the footage to get quotes for repairs.

[Text on screen: Damage detected. Leak, moderate.]

[New scene: interior of the refit space. New drywall has been installed and painting has begun. As the camera pans through the scene, the site transitions to being fully painted with new lighting installed.]

The greening work is almost complete, but Omar realises more could be done to improve energy efficiency.

[The camera pulls back to reveal Omar, the team’s Environmental Specialist, viewing the refit space on his computer. The large windows on site have been highlighted by the software.]

[Omar pulls up a panel analysing the building’s current energy efficiency rating, displayed as a pie chart, and a list of recommended actions.]

[Text on screen: Make it green. Building efficiency, 75%. Recommended actions: upgrade building sensors, reseal entryway, install triple-pane windows.]

[Omar compares the projected effects of the system’s recommended actions. As he hovers over each option with his mouse, the pie chart, indicating building efficiency, adjusts to show how much of an improvement each action would result in. He sees that the first option, upgrading the building’s sensors, would have the greatest impact.]

Omar contacts Jules, the procurement officer on the team, about purchasing new energy sensors.

[Omar minimizes his energy efficiency analytic software and starts a video call with Jules.]

[A speech bubble appears over Omar. He says, “Let’s upgrade the Building Energy Management System by adding sensors.”]

[New scene: Jules works at a desktop computer in the hotelling space at her PSPC office. She is using the E-Procurement portal.]

Jules is using the E-Procurement system, an all-in-one platform, to quickly invite suppliers to bid on the sensors.

[The E-Procurement interface allows users to search, or filter, pre-approved suppliers by categories and services. Jules has filtered the list of suppliers down to the “systems and sensors” category, yielding 331 results. She scrolls through the list of suppliers with names, locations, and brief descriptions of services. The system allows her to contact suppliers or read a more detailed description of their services. Once satisfied with her filtered list of suppliers, she clicks a button labelled “Call for bids”.]

[Text on screen: Success, bidding open.]

An Indigenous company wins the bid.

[A chart tracking building energy usage appears with a point indicating the installation of the new sensors. The trendline descends rapidly.]

[Text on screen: Building energy usage. New sensors.]

New sensors are installed, and the building’s energy consumption goes way down.

[New scene: Juan, the team’s Designer, and Jules are seated on the patio of a local coffee shop. Jules is disappointed.]

During a coffee break, the team gets a notification that the casual seating is on back order and will be delayed months.

[A pop-up notification appears on Jules’s laptop. It reads, “Status of soft seating order has changed: Product is on back order with expected delay of 3 months.”]

The artificial intelligence system has already found similar products at 2 alternate suppliers.

[A speech bubble appears over Juan. He says, “This seating could work equally well.”]

[Juan has a listing for comparable seating pulled up on his tablet. He gestures OK to Jules, who’s mood has improved with the good news.]

The team selects the 1 that can meet the deadline, staying on schedule.

[New scene: interior of the refit space where movers are on site delivering sofas, seating, tables, and lights. Juan and Pauline direct the movers, referencing a digital checklist on their tablets.]

[Text on screen: A smooth move.]

Furniture day has arrived, and the team is directing the setup based on detailed floor plans, right down to each recycling bin.

[Pauline brings up her tablet screen, which shows a floorplan of the space and the final positions of each piece of furniture. Several hand-drawn notes are made detailing on-the-fly alterations to the plan. A side panel shows the progress of the move by tracking how many pieces of furniture are accounted for in each category.]

[Text on screen: Floor plan. Progress: tables and desks; Seating: chairs, sofas; Displays: wall-mounted, monitors; Lighting: lamps, overhead fixtures; Recycling: recycling stations.]

[New scene: The team is celebrating in the finished refit space; they have coffee and doughnuts.]

[Text on screen: Doughnuts 2 Go]

Daniel and his team meet in the finished refit space to celebrate a project delivered on time and on budget.

Together, they leveraged tools and technology to work smart, fast and digitally, delivering a space that exceeded their clients’ expectations.

[A speech bubble appears over Daniel. He says, “Is it too soon to talk about our next refit project?”]

[Fade to white]

[Text animates on screen in time with narration]

It’s time we start building our digital future together.

[Music stops]

[Public Services and Procurement Canada signature]

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