That's a good question.
I'll start off, and if he wants, he can jump in after.
I have a couple of things, just to put some more context to it.
Ten days is the timeline that would be put on the street, if you will, for vendors to participate. However, leading up to that, there's the development time to curate a proposal. That takes weeks if not months to do.
Second, when we worked with PSPC, we worked in conjunction with them and our internal controllership, with a targeted goal to move forward with an RFP as quickly as possible.
The third thing is that we were given direction from our superiors that we would not be able to stop. We didn't have the luxury of pausing during the pandemic, so we followed that direction and we were working with the experts in procurement and contracting. We did the best we could with the tools we had, but we never had the authority to just make unilateral contracting decisions. I just want to reiterate that.