... group is divided into 3 separate business lines; MERLIN, for Oracle financials, HRMIS for Human Resources, and ADAM, for application development and maintenance. Each business line is managed by one manager and 20 employees share duties amongst the 3 units. Managers can select any number of the 20 employees to work on a particular project in the respective business lines. Monthly meetings help to communication information amongst the various groups. Individual departments within Environment Canada have the option of soliciting private consultants for new development, or to contract out to the BSSB for development needs. The BSSB operates like an independent consulting firm, having to compete with private commercial consulting firms by submitting RFPs and RFQs for contracts posted by Environment Canada divisions. Until recently the majority of the new projects and exploratory developmental research was done by BSSB. Most, if not all new projects and research are now farmed ...

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