There may be extraordinary circumstances. We don't even rule out sole-sourcing if there's a compelling public policy or security reason. The procurement process can be very expensive. I think if we had a criticism of government procurement, it would be that it's such an expensive process. What proponents are aggravated by is that if you do 500 pages of document, about 450 of those pages are the same from every proponent, but it's very expensive to do. You want to cut to the chase.
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