Mr. Chairman, thank you for this question.
The fairness monitoring policy framework was adopted by the Department of Public Works nearly three years ago, in mid-summer 2005. It's a framework that helps guide us to determine when additional assurance might be required for some of those complex procurements. It provides some criteria that we need to assess, such as the complexity of the requirement, the sensitivity, the value of the requirement, if it's a large requirement.
Since the implementation of that policy framework, we have had 23 requirement processes that were subject to the hiring of a fairness monitor, and the final decision related to this is made with another group within the Department of Public Works that deals with risk.