Thank you for the question.
For this procurement here, we have not released a request for proposal. We had the request for information. We had some results and a good analysis on that, with some very specific conclusions that were also supported by, as I mentioned earlier, a third party assessment. Then we needed more information from the one solution that delivered on all HLMRs at the current time. As I mentioned earlier, that triggered the government-to-government engagement that we have right now with U.S. government foreign military sales through the letter of request.
We have received more information. I would not characterize this process so far as having taken a lot of time. I think we have actually met each one of the milestones fairly swiftly, fairly effectively and with the right information.
Before I turn it back to Mr. Matthews, in our branch we take very seriously our job of balancing all the pillars of defence procurement. We have the performance/capability pillar. In this case here, the availability is also a huge component of that performance piece. Then there's the cost and the value for money. Sometimes we think that the cost is simply the price of the aircraft, but it's a lot more than that when you're purchasing a capability. We're also taking that into consideration. The third key pillar is the one that ISED is responsible for, the economic benefits.
We have a lot of information on the table. We still have not made our decision. We're debating it with a good degree of granularity.