Thank you.
Eleven companies shared with us their comments on the draft that was sent regarding the MERX service. They underscored certain things that they are asking us to consider as part of the next stages of GENS.
Let me summarize the feedback that we've received from industry in that draft solicitation process.
The majority of industry commented that the GENS approach was sound and that they were interested in our proceeding with the next phase. There were comments on the professional services component of GENS, and they felt that we needed to clarify and to remove professional services. This was a point that small and medium-sized enterprises were quite interested in and had brought to our attention. Other industry responses indicated that they wanted the process to be clear and they wanted more opportunity to essentially provide input into the next steps.
We received 11 responses. We've taken those responses into consideration and we've made significant adjustments in our approach. Those were documented in our response and essentially provided to--