Mr. Chair, if I could add to the question on the bundling and the effort to do this commodity management, as we call it, it is to break down the 14 different areas in which the government does the majority of its procurement and to understand what the industry needs to know about what we buy. This is about the day-to-day things: the photocopiers, the office furniture, the food and other services, and the professional services.
So it's about understanding what the industry is looking at or what businesses are looking at for information so they can participate in that procurement. For our client departments, the 140 federal departments and agencies we support, it's about them understanding as well what it means when you go out and procure locally. If we have this instrument that we're putting in place over the next year or year and a half, it will allow you as a buyer to just say, “Okay, I need to buy this piece of equipment”, and it just goes out and you buy that piece of equipment. You don't have to go through a big procurement process. You don't end up bundling things, which is one of the big concerns; that does cut out small and medium-sized enterprises.
This is the framework we've put in place to deal with that issue. Also, it has to be something that's sustainable. It can't be a quick fix. It has to be a more permanent fix, which is what's taking us time to put in place.