I have not reviewed their proposal in detail. I received an initial version of it and read the document, but I did not go into the details.
What I can share is the advice I gave the Prime Minister. I know that it was a matter of figuring out whether the department should have done the work or whether that organization was best suited to do it. In my experience, among our biggest challenges were building the program and recruiting participants. It took us a lot of time to get to about 1,800 pilot projects. So my advice was based on that experience. I mentioned that it was a challenge to recruit students or young participants to immerse themselves in a long-term service program.
So what I advised the Prime Minister was that the organization in question should have national level activities, an active digital platform and already well established experience in youth engagement. Since too short of a timeline did not allow us to start the work from scratch, we really had to have an organization that was already in place and had experience in youth engagement.