Suspended ArriveCan IT consultant unloading $2.2M Ottawa office condo

An Ottawa technology consulting company suspended from working on federal government contracts after becoming embroiled in the ArriveCan app spending controversy is unloading a $2.2 million office condominium it owns near Parliament Hill, Global News has learned.

Coradix Technology Consulting Ltd. put up for sale an office suite which it owns at 222 Somerset St. West in the national capital downtown about five months ago, just as the ArriveCan app spending controversy was intensifying inside and outside Parliament, documents show.

The Coradix-owned office, Suite #500, is a sprawling, well-lit space inside the five-storey commercial building nestled between Metcalfe and Elgin streets, just 10 blocks from Parliament Hill.

Neither Coradix nor its Chief Executive Officer Tony Carmanico returned telephone or email messages seeking additional information about the sale.

The listing says the office suite was recently remodeled, which photos appear to confirm.

Coradix bought its two units in the building – suites #500 and #700 – for $2,846,500 in December 2019, just prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, property registration records show.

(Suite #700 appears to be occupied by a second, sister business owned by Coradix CEO Carmanico called Mad Ads Interactive Inc.  Suite #700 does not appear to be part of the $2.2 million sale.)

Though Coradix has since 2021 announced multiple federal government contract wins on its website, including one for technology support of the Canada Border Services Agency’s intelligence and enforcement branch, Coradix has made no public announcement there about selling its offices.

CBRE Ottawa senior vice president Dominic Dostie is the agent now selling Suite #500.

Dostie abruptly ended a phone call with a Global News