OK. That answers my question. I had a feeling that was it.
I was also listening carefully to what you said when Ms. Bourgeois asked you if there was a policy of bundling. You answered that there was none, as far as you knew. I have a different question. Would Public Works and Government Services like to bundle contracts? I am not talking about a policy; I am talking about a preference, which is very different.
Last week at the committee, we became aware of four or five companies, SNC-Lavalin among them, that had replaced 340 small and medium businesses in managing and maintaining federal buildings. For furniture and information technology, Public Works and Government Services also wants there to be only one huge contract. Of course, that company will use small and medium businesses as subcontractors.
My question is very specific. You say that there is no policy of bundling contracts at PWGSC, but we sense a preference along those lines. When I asked a senior PWGSC official last week, his answer was that it was significantly cheaper to deal with a single company, SNC-Lavalin in this case, than with 344 small and medium businesses. I want to know if PWGSC really does want to bundle contracts