As we mentioned in our opening statement, this concept around procurement circles is typically called “bait and switch”. It's a known occurrence. However, there is a significant problem with it, and that problem is as follows.
When you're bidding...and here, the selection methodology was 70:30, indicating that it was 70% technical and 30% price, meaning that the technical component is incredibly important, and the technical component is built up predominantly by the resources. When they are bidding, they provide for resources that ultimately are going to receive the highest technical score possible, so they might be awarded a contract based on technical resources that never perform any work.
Then, unfortunately, in the way the process worked in these instances, the resources that were provided did not have to meet the same merit criteria that the original resources did. Therefore, it would have a significant impact on fairness. While it's not the issue that's being reported outside of this committee, it's still a very significant and concerning finding.