Thank you very much. I appreciate the question, Mr. Chair. It gives me the opportunity to clarify this incident, which was covered by the media. I think everybody was affected by looking at this news.
One thing I need to say is that we are committed to transparent and fair procurement. In this instance, it was a junior officer who went beyond the expectations in terms of engaging and working with the industry. Our staff work with all of the industry partners all the time, because this is what we need to make the system work and to understand what we are using to fix the problem. This was not appropriate, but it was a junior officer. Measures were taken to make sure that the employee received training and proper guidance to avoid that.
I want to reassure committee members that there was no influence of this action taken by the employee on the said procurement. The procurement was the subject of discussion with the industry. We made some adjustments, but they were not related to the issue of this employee reaching the vendor. It did not affect the direction. The rationale that this employee developed has not been used to direct the future of this procurement.
I want to say that this is very important. We care about integrity and keeping public trust on this. It was really disturbing, and we have taken the proper measures in assisting this employee to understand proper behaviour.