Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Powell, for your presentation. As this committee studies procurement, certainly the information you bring before committee is important and concerning.
You raise a number of different issues. One issue is the appearance of bias or the appearance of a conflict of interest in the evaluation of bids in a contract awarding process. I wonder if you could expand on the nature of that conflict as you saw it, or on the appearance of that conflict.