The changes that we've requested are long-standing and go back three or four years. Those were the regulatory changes. The way I answered the question was also with the foundational changes that we've seen necessary that are much more broad than the ones that I'll describe to you.
One of them gives us the authority to review complaints from indigenous suppliers on contracts awarded pursuant to the PSIB.
The second is the right to compel documentation. That has been something that this committee has kindly offered to help with. If we're seeing issues of documentation not being provided by departments or agencies pursuant to our reviews, we could engage this committee. The marker I'll put down is that I still have more rights as a Canadian citizen making an access to information request than I do as the procurement ombudsman requesting documentation.
The final one is changing the opportunity to award damages so that I can make a recommendation for lost profit or a recommendation for bid costs associated with complaints. Currently that's capped at 10%. We've heard that this is an artificial restriction on some people bringing forward complaints because, again, these are busy businesses. If they don't see that it's worth their while financially to bring a complaint forward when there is merit, then they're not going to bring the complaint. We're seeking that ceiling to be increased to 25% from the existing 10%.
That being said, documentation has to be provided in order to validate it, so it's not just a simple jump from 10% to 25%. It would be upon validation of actual lost profits or upon validation of actual bid costs.