Government/Public Sector

Orion Canada Inc. is considered the Canadian leader in the design of lean and value-added management system solutions for mission critical systems and organizations. The Ottawa-based consulting company assists public and private sector organizations pursuing the strategic use of quality to achieve breakthrough quality improvement through management and process excellence.

Orion Canada has worked with the following Canadian federal government organizations:

• Canadian Space Agency
• Department of National Defence
• Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC)
• Transport Canada
• Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade
• Canadian Revenue Agency

Orion Canada services relatively few clients, but it services those clients extremely well. Some of the competitive advantages that Orion Canada offers its public sector clients are:

• Extensive experience with quality management, best practices and Treasury Board policies in the public sector (e.g., Management Accountability Framework)
• A proven project management methodology applied to all projects which ensures on-time, on-budget deliverables
• Access to several procurement vehicles and standing offers
• A well established and debt free company with a long track record of success
• A proprietary best practices gap assessment methodology based on several quality models including the NQI Progressive Excellence Program and ISO 9001:2000
• the team includes certified lead auditors who actually perform certification audits for accredited registrars. Most “Lead Auditors” are not certified, and very few are contracted by registrars
• Orion Canada has been on the forefront of Quality Management standards. A management system fully designed, implemented and maintained by Orion Canada was the first anywhere in North America to achieve ISO 9001:2000 certification
• Learner Centered and Guided Discovery training methodologies that maximize knowledge transfer
• A repertoire of more than 30 Orion Canada courses
• An easy-to-use, low cost, fully ISO 9001-compliant, web-based document control system
• QA reviews of deliverables by a technical writer with 20+ years of experience