The first we learned of it was when we learned there was an RFI that had gone out on MERX for a GENS, which is a “government enterprise network services” contract. Steven Poole, who at the time was the CEO of PWGSC's ITSB, did a presentation at OCRI, which is the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, and proposed that there would be four pillars, all worth upwards of $1 billion each for contracts of, at the time, 15 to 20 years.
We were absolutely floored. His response to us was that we should form consortiums together to bid on these contracts, and that otherwise, we were out of luck.