Good question.
The actual $150,000 is not for the set-aside. The set-aside goes up to $4 million. What the $150,000 goes for is the simplified acquisition. It actually starts at U.S. $25,000.
What it means is that we want to make sure that even the smaller contracts, the contracts that are the most likely low-hanging fruit that our small businesses can go for, are not being favoured by certain people and certain things. We have a simplified acquisition process to ensure that everybody has a right to those contracts and they are not just being favourably given to certain people.
Now, having said that, to your question about the set-aside, if you are in the 8(a) program, the nine-year term program, and you are developing your business and you're going for a federal procurement, we can give you a federal procurement contract with non-compete status, a sole-source set-aside, for up to $4 million. That's different. That's open only to those people who are members of that program.
But the simplified acquisition plan is open to all small businesses, whether they're in a program or not.