Going through that process for me.... We applied through the MERX electronic tendering system. That's how we had to apply for this project. At that point it was fairly straightforward. There was an online application form. We completed that and then submitted it, just like we would submit for any other programs we've been part of up to now.
At that point we were contacted and basically told that we had been approved--“conditionally pre-approved” was the exact term. They then matched us with the testing facility. At that point it became, certainly for a small company of just a few people, a fairly onerous process to deal with the bureaucracy of the system. It required a sort of persistent patience is how I would describe it, where we had to maintain persistence, but then it would go off into a land that we didn't understand and then come back to us as another question we weren't expecting, let's say. So we had to maintain this patience.