Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I should be precise. The 37,000 transactions that are associated with procurement are not all RFPs. They can be amendments. They could be contract terminations. They are all events that we touch.
I should have added in my previous answer that many of the RFPs are posted on the CanadaBuys website, which is a collaborative website that the Government of Canada runs in coordination with all public jurisdictions in Canada so that you're able to see all the RFPs that are live.
In response to your second question, they get elevated due to complexity, due to the procurement plan or due to the risk associated with a procurement. For example, in COVID, there were many emergency authorities that had to be brought into place and many different types of procurement that were elevated to the minister's attention.
There are many different aspects to the answer, but it's really driven by risk, complexity and value. When it's over a certain threshold, depending on the commodity or service we're buying, it will then go to Treasury Board ministers to seek their approval to enter into a contract.