As I said before, we wrote a letter regarding this. In this letter we wrote about the main issues and the areas that were unclear regarding this first level of bid, considering our experience in the international market and our experience in negotiating a very complex program with different end users.
We wrote in this letter that there was an unclear process for the transfer of technology in the different phases. For us, as you know, the transfer of technology is one of the key issues in order to allow the local capabilities and manage such a complex program, and this was unclear in the terms and conditions. There was a problem related to the risk in the share of work, because the role of the bidders was not clear. Considering the leading role of the shipyard, it was rather an important point. The other important point was related to the fact that the management of the IP was not clear.
We are not against, in principle, all of these issues, but we were in an unclear position about the risk for this program, and not only for Fincantieri. In the letter we wrote, “In our opinion, the contract structure proposed in the bidders' prime contractorship and in the RFP, request for proposal, does not serve well any of the parties, the prime contractor, the bidders, the Canadian authorities”. We exposed the details—