I think your question was directed at assurances regarding the integrity of the procurement process. In fact, I'm not certain I would say that the NSPS is a gold standard. But it set a high standard, a high bar, for ensuring a fair, open, and transparent procurement process. It dealt with the siloing of the different evaluation teams, keeping the results secret, and coding the results. At times Treasury Board approvals were received without knowledge of the names of the bidders. All of these things taken together contributed significantly to I think an overwhelming view that the process was run in a fair, open, and transparent fashion.
It's more complex than that with the engagement of the shipyards. For instance, the shipyards were consulted on evaluation criteria and how we would weight them. We even sat down with potential suppliers and asked them to tell us what they thought the weighting should be for these criteria. The transparency has been extraordinary. The shipyards themselves agreed to share their own evaluations of how the yards fared, one against the other. That level of transparency we think contributes to the integrity of the procurement process.