Mr. Chair, again I go back to two things, quickly. Number one, in a number of different areas, goods, and services, suppliers bid zero. I take the point that it was a very significant difference between the zero and the price in other bids, but second-judging that business intelligence as to why they would bid zero puts Public Works and Government Services on a very slippery slope.
The second point is that there is jurisprudence in terms of our ability to compare one bid to another. There have been cases before the CITT. Looking at those, did the department have the latitude to really compare one bid to another and do the assessments? In retrospect, the Auditor General has said that in looking at all factors and all things combined, there should have been flags, and we take that point.