This is one of the issues that has been raised about the program. We're there to make that one sale, to assist a company that has an innovative idea; whether we actually end up wanting to buy it is a decision the government will have to make.
The interesting piece is that once you have sold it and it now commercializes, you enter into the normal procurement world. You're not designated particularly. Certain rules might apply in the future, but generally that product's available on the market.
When you first get that, you do the testing. The testing department has to have some interest in the piece. They participate in developing that test to assess the equipment.
The next thing they have to do is to decide whether they could actually use that application in the future. In a number of cases, they have said, “Thank you very much. That's not something we will use in the future. We're glad to have tested it”. That is part of the process of introducing innovations; either you can use it or you can't.
We've had some surprising success in that some of those innovations have actually moved on to regular procurements for government, but in a lot of cases that innovation is then marketed commercially as opposed to within government. It's not that we're testing something useless. The program is about buying something and helping that innovator assess whether it's a useful thing. It's very much in the R and D world and not in the commercial procurement world.