That's fine.
In a way it sounds as though CICP and its government clients, through testing and feedback and collaborative product development ideas, is making an indirect investment in product development for your companies. Maybe this is one of these things that doesn't get viewed as.... It's not like writing a cheque, but it's a real investment of their time and effort to help you move along in that product evolution.
Would you say that was a fair way to describe it?