We embarked on a sort of operational review in the city two years ago to try to meet some significant budget constraints and to keep taxes down, which is a very popular thing to do nowadays. One of the things we realized is that we did not have good control over our procurement processes. So we revamped our policy, and council asked us to share, on a quarterly basis, our results for procurement. As I said, we reported it once a year under the statute. It's very different when you're reporting it quarterly and it's all in a list and you start to see who you're contracting with, the value of the contract, whether it was competitively procured, when it started, and when it finished. And people can start on real time to analyze that. I'll tell you, it's a really good driver to keep your procurement processes very healthy and with a very high integrity, because it's very transparent.
We've compared our data from the last few years, and we're achieving a 98% competitive procurement level on all of our contracts over $300,000. I think that's a metric that is certainly up there as a benchmark, and we're very proud of it. But if you don't publish these things and advertise them, then sometimes you don't even know what the answer to that question is.