# Acernis Technologies
> Senior-led boutique management and technology consultancy based in Ottawa, Canada. Program and transformation leadership, procurement leadership and advisory, and transit, travel and payments expertise. Principal: Mehdi Mahmoudian. Contact through the form at https://acernis.ca/contact/.

## Pages
- [Senior leadership for complex programs](https://acernis.ca/): Senior-led management and technology consultancy in Ottawa. Program leadership, complex procurement advisory, and transit, travel and payments expertise.
- [What We Do](https://acernis.ca/what-we-do/): Three connected capabilities: program and transformation leadership, procurement leadership and advisory, and transit, travel and payments expertise.
- [Program & Transformation Leadership](https://acernis.ca/what-we-do/program-leadership/): Senior leadership for complex, multi-year technology and operational transformations: strategy, governance, multi-vendor delivery and implementation.
- [Procurement Leadership & Advisory](https://acernis.ca/what-we-do/procurement-advisory/): Senior leadership for complex, high-value public procurements: strategy, evaluation, fairness and defensibility, negotiation, award and transition to delivery.
- [Transit, Travel & Payments](https://acernis.ca/what-we-do/transit-payments/): Domain expertise in fare collection, account-based ticketing, open payments, digital channels and passenger technology, from procurement to operations.
- [Selected Experience](https://acernis.ca/experience/): Selected leadership experience: Metrolinx PRESTO, TransLink Compass, and transit, aviation and travel programs from procurement through implementation.
- [About Acernis](https://acernis.ca/about/): Acernis is a senior-led boutique management and technology consultancy. Meet principal Mehdi Mahmoudian and learn how we work with clients.
- [Contact](https://acernis.ca/contact/): Contact Acernis about structuring a procurement, mobilizing a transformation or navigating a difficult implementation. Based in Ottawa, Canada.
- [Insights](https://acernis.ca/insights/): Practical perspectives on running public procurements that stand up to scrutiny: defensibility, evaluation criteria, records and the path to delivery.
- [Privacy notice](https://acernis.ca/privacy/): How Acernis uses the information you send through the contact form, and the limited visit records kept for security.
- [What “defensible” means in a public procurement](https://acernis.ca/insights/what-defensible-means/): A defensible procurement is one you can explain to anyone who asks. What that means in practice, and why compliance alone is not enough.
- [Evaluation criteria that stand up to scrutiny](https://acernis.ca/insights/evaluation-criteria-that-stand-up-to-scrutiny/): Most challenges to a procurement decision trace back to the evaluation criteria. How to build criteria that are clear, scoreable and fair.
- [Documenting a procurement for the record](https://acernis.ca/insights/procurement-record/): When a decision is challenged, the record is the procurement. What to capture, how to write it and when, so the decision can speak for itself.
- [Defensible does not stop at award](https://acernis.ca/insights/beyond-award/): A clean procurement that produces a contract nobody can deliver is not a success. How to connect the contract to delivery and the outcome.

## Downloads and profiles
- [Capabilities overview (PDF)](https://acernis.ca/assets/Acernis-Capabilities-Overview.pdf): one-page summary of services and experience
- [LinkedIn: Mehdi Mahmoudian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehdimahmoudian/)

## Full text
- [All page content in one file](https://acernis.ca/llms-full.txt)