If the committee would make a recommendation, the response would be “we'd love to, but we're bound by trade agreements.”
I'd like to touch on another topic. We've seen this—not to put blame anywhere—in the supplier and vendor performance, and whether we should take this into account when procurements follow up after we know, for instance, that company X failed to deliver on their promise to do x, y, and z. Is this something we should take into account? Also, can we take that into account in evaluating future bids when the same company makes an offer?