I'd like to say that I'm too young to remember the 1990s--you tossed that one at me--but that's not true.
Yes, I think we've come a long way since the 1990s, especially in the area of transparency. I think the Internet has done wonders to open transparency. The measures that are now in place with proactive disclosure, the MERX postings, these are all very progressive steps.
I should mention that the office often hosts foreign delegations. These are very envious things that we're doing. We have foreign delegations that can't believe, when we take them through the web, that we can actually show people not only what contracts are being offered by federal departments, but also what contracts have been awarded. So I think, drawing a comparison from the 1990s, in transparency there's been a huge leap forward.
I believe the government has come a long way as well in making certain procurement vehicles available to make the process more efficient. For example, we now have mandatory standing offers and supply arrangements. These are efficiency tools that are in place that weren't in place in the 1990s. Again, the Office of the Procurement Ombudsman is a positive step that takes us forward from the 1990s.
I think there has been a lot of progress since the 1990s, definitely.