I take your point. The supplier community is always concerned about the speed of procurement, especially for small and medium businesses, but we've had a number of tools in place.
We also do pre-facilitated contracts, which are standing offer and supply arrangements that are already in place and allow departments to immediately access those suppliers on these documents. It really expedites the whole process. Also, these are generally competitive processes, so suppliers get the opportunity to bid. They offer their services and they can get contracts awarded. For many small businesses, standing offers and supply arrangements are key and important parts of their business. That's one thing.
I would also mention that in terms of dollar value, as Arianne was mentioning, the bulk of the lower dollar value procurement, a lot of which goes to small businesses, is with the other departments, because they can buy up to $25,000 in goods. There are probably somewhere around 400,000 procurements that are done every year with other federal departments. Again, these are all about how we can expedite these processes, these low dollar value contracts.