I have a couple of general procurement questions, if you could answer them for me, Mr. Sobrino.
Do you have any idea, as a department, what the actual cost to the taxpayer is to have projects tendered? The reason I am asking is that we have had contracts up to $25,000 not being tendered. I think everyone assumed that was at the top level, that everything was at $25,000, which obviously is not the case.
There are lots of smaller things you would not tender for because I'm assuming there is a cost to doing a tender. During my days in municipal politics...I know that by the time you advertise, promote what you're doing—you have to qualify the bidders—it takes time and effort. It is good public policy, but at some point it's not that cost-effective.
Do you have any idea what it costs to actually do a tendered program?