Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Actually, it's very similar to what my colleague from PSPC said. Obviously, we're running a large portfolio of projects here at Shared Services Canada. The ability to grow fast is very often important. This is done by leveraging professional services in a number of cases. Very often, we have a start date, end date and clear deliverables. Those are perfect opportunities to augment our capacity by leveraging private sector resources.
You mentioned COVID. That's also a good example. When we need to respond to a crisis and to a surge of demand, for us it's absolutely critical that we have in place contracts, so that we can tap into those resources fast and for a short period of time. It allows us to help our existing staff with this increased demand.