The fundamental piece to this program comes on the innovation side. They have a product that the coast guard doesn't know it might need, so that's really the difference.
The coast guard has all its requirements, and it has to choose from a bunch of priorities within its budget, etc., but this program here is really about somebody coming up to us with an innovative idea. We screen for that idea, regardless of what idea it is, against the basic categories, as I say.
Let's say it's some new rubber for inflatable boats. They come in with that, and we sit there and say, “Okay this is an interesting piece of rubber that you can do something with.” Then what we will do at Public Works is to say, “We're interested in procuring to test this, but we need a department to test it for or with.” That department might be the coast guard, or it might Defence, depending on what we find. So we will go to that department and say, “Does this interest you? Do you think it's worth testing this? And by the way, we're buying it for you to test.” So they will test it.
The question is will they buy it in the future? Let's say they are happy with the product. Now they know of its existence, plus they have tested it so they have some sense of its success and are then able to put it into their normal procurement process and their priorities.