Early in the process, Alexander wrote to the deputy heads of those departments, who identified a point of contact, usually a member of their senior management team. Then we held initial meetings with them—what we refer to as our “kickoff meetings”. From there, we extended our document request to each of the departments.
I will say that we received good support from each of the three involved in this particular review. We had some back-and-forth, of course, because they provide initial documents. Oftentimes, we had questions about them. They were quite responsive in providing those responses. That was through the early stages.
Then, as the procurement ombudsman was just describing, as we got to the stages later in the review when we had results, we again had meetings with them if they had questions about the preliminary observations. They would provide the responses, which we considered as we were developing the draft report, which eventually led to the final report the committee received.