Now I'll turn to my last question.
Before a contract is awarded, the usual process is this: put out a request for proposals, review x number of bids and objectively decide who to award the contract to, usually according to predetermined criteria. Now, in an emergency situation, when a request for proposals isn't put out and objective criteria aren't established for evaluating the bids, isn't it even more important to be on guard for possible conflicts of interest than during the usual process?