The question still hasn't been answered, but I have to move on.
There's a particular problem here if the recipients of all or most of those subcontracts are non-indigenous. If you have a small, officially indigenous firm that is simply acting as a broker between the federal government and non-indigenous business, then they're masking the fact that actually, indigenous peoples and indigenous businesses are not getting the final business at the end of the day.
Is there an expectation or a requirement that some percentage of subcontracts also goes to indigenous firms?