You know as well as I do that bidders are not given some documents. These documents are quite important in choosing the winning bid. As a result, people have to go through access to information to get them. If the value of the contract is quite high—$200 million or $250 million, for example—there may be a good deal of documentation, and it may be very costly. In addition, it may take time to get them.
Is there a point in the process where people can ask for an extension in the deadlines in order to provide documents? There's a reference to “attachments” on the form. That is where the application usually becomes thicker.