I would say the plan to have this work done was at least a year in advance, and so the people who actually let the contract in October were following through on that intent. In governance over our expenditures, things go to more senior levels. When more senior levels, including me and our CFO, had a chance to discuss it, we questioned whether public servants shouldn't be doing it, because we needed to be doing this into 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and onwards and we didn't want to be perpetually contracting out work when we anticipated an ongoing need for this kind of work.
On March 6th, 2023. See this statement in context.