KPMG and MNP put Quebec's $96 million health ERP above $1 billion.
Thomas Gerbet reported it for Radio-Canada on 14 September.
SIFA is a finance and procurement platform intended to replace 41 solutions across Quebec's health establishments. It was budgeted at $96 million in 2022.
A June 2026 assessment by the cybersecurity ministry with KPMG and MNP put the project at more than $1 billion.
Cabinet re-authorised it on 15 July. The figure announced publicly was $329 million, while Radio-Canada reports the envelope had reached $464.8 million.
Five days before that decision, on 10 July, the government's own chief information officer, Stéphane Le Bouyonnec, recommended against re-authorising it because of the risk and the state of the project.
The supplier is LGS, a subsidiary of IBM. IBM Canada said it was "engagée envers le succès du projet SIFA", committed to the project's success, and referred detailed questions to its client.
Santé Québec's spokesperson Marianne Paquette said: "Le véritable enjeu n'est pas le coût de la modernisation, mais bien celui du statu quo." She said the cost of standing still is the real issue.
The June assessment also found the projected $1.1 billion in savings "globalement surestimés", generally overestimated, without sufficiently rigorous analysis to support them.
When your own CIO recommends against a project in writing, what happens to that memo?
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