It is one recommendation that came from the joint initiative we've been involved in with Public Works over the past year: to build more in-house capacity. It is also linked to the functional review that our ADM was mentioning earlier. Right now we don't have internal capacity to be able to take on all the work that Public Works is doing for us. That wouldn't be feasible for us at this point.
Certainly it's something we would seriously consider. Given that Public Works is charging a mark-up rate, we would gain on that aspect. However, there are the larger projects for which we will probably always want to keep in touch with Public Works for their expertise. They are very professional and they have the technical basis for the types of work we're doing.
There are other ways to streamline our fees by engaging them earlier in the process so our projects are done in a more thought-out way. Let's plan this year and be ready early in the next year so we don't encounter situations where it's too late in the year and we can't deliver on our projects.
We're doing a lot more planning and pre-planning so that we don't find ourselves in these sticky situations. Multi-year planning has become more important, especially for the larger projects.