First of all, all the contracting for advertising services goes through one group, and that's Public Works and Government Services Canada. Right there it enables one group to ensure they are following all the principles of open, fair, and transparent government.
Every contract for advertising services is awarded on a competitive basis. We worked to put in a series of tools that are at the disposal of departments. For instance, we already talked about the agency of record. That contract was let after a national competitive process.
We now have a series of three sets of instruments that departments use: standing offers for services up to $350,000; they also have access to companies that have been pre-qualified on supply arrangements; and departments can also ask PWGSC to run a full RFP process on MERX.
As I said, every contract is awarded competitively, and it's done on a two- or three-year cycle to ensure there's a rotation, and it's open to as many suppliers as want to apply.
Further to that, we have....