Thank you.
Let me explain. As I mentioned earlier in response to a question on what has changed since the 1990s, a few years ago standing offers and supply arrangements for certain commodities became mandatory. That made things more efficient for departments. Rather than doing contracts on their own for these common goods and services, it made sense to bundle them and have them done together. It's the critical mass theory, where it's cheaper to have them done as a package.
What we're discussing in the report is that while the policy says it's mandatory, some departments are not following that policy; they're still going off on their own. We believe that if the government is going to generate the efficiencies it anticipated with these standing offers and other types of vehicles, that mandatory clause should be enforced.