There were two distinct phases in this work. We had the summer work, the highly urgent incident command system, which was in place until the end of September. It was demobilized after that, after the majority of the fish had passed.
We then went into a project phase. At that point, we started to get a sense of the success of the summer work. Our understanding of that success evolved over a few months, to the point where we realized that we had not been largely successful. We realized that we needed more help and that we didn't have the expertise in the department to undertake the massive work that was required. We initiated a process to seek expert advice outside of the department. It took some time to put the contracts in place. The effort was to find the right people, to seek advice, to talk to technical advisers, to reach out and to then undertake the competitive bidding process.