The Shared Services process that's still under way has such size and scale requirements embedded into their invitation to qualify process that we, at Sharp Canada, as the OEM, were precluded from bidding. All of our dealer partners are now automatically locked out, once this is awarded for the six-to-eight-year time frame that I referenced.
As an example, there were four or five criteria that were mandatory pass/fail that were purely based on the size and scale of your business in Canada as the OEM. I think there are 12 proponents currently supplying the federal government, and only seven organizations bid. Five were eliminated out of the gate even after industry consultation by Shared Services, which was long and extensive. I give them due credit for that, but they ignored the voices. Consultation is one thing, actually hearing it is another, where people like myself wrote submissions suggesting that would be the outcome of “large is big” and “better is great”.