I'm, of course, able to speak to that.
The most significant one had to do with moving to full cost recovery. We are now at about 80% to 90% of full cost recovery. We'll likely not achieve full cost recovery, because part of what the standards board does is help me in my other role in acquisitions, which is to set standards for things that I'm buying. Some of that work is internal, so I could move the money back and forth in my organization, but it would not really be full cost recovery. Essentially, any external work is now on full cost recovery. That was to meet one of the main recommendations of the evaluation.
The second thing had to do with what we're charging, and that was to ensure that we fully recovered costs. This goes back to an earlier question. Our standard rate at that time was about $1,000 a day, and the report recommended—and I don't know how they got to the dollar—$1,111 a day, and we're now up at about $1,300-a-day cost recovery to run the standards development process.
The certification services were at $1,050 per day, and it recommended that we move this up to about $1,275 a day. We're now just under $1,700 a day for the actual certification process. These rates are competitive. They're competing with the private sector. We're not below market. We're actually moving to market rates. This is what other standards organizations would charge to do these services. That, I would say, is the most important piece.
We also had some internal things, one of which was to develop a strategic plan as to where we are going. Certainly we have developed that. Getting out of almost 700 standards was part of that strategic plan. We wanted to focus on our core business and remove the standards that no longer need the federal government's involvement. We wanted to have those given to others.