We are an IT consulting company or an IT staffing company. The key components of our business are in proposals, recruitment and account management. We also have teams in IT and teams in innovation. We also have a finance and administration team and a small team that handles our security.
Our focus in this business that allows us to do work with the federal government is all around proposals. Last year, we responded to 93 proposals, at a significant cost. We win under 10% of those proposals. Once we are awarded contracts, we then are sent task authorizations by our clients, and the consultants are found and searched through our recruitment teams. Last year, our recruiters had over 1,500 meetings with consultants.
We do this, so that when we are successful and the government awards us these contracts, we're able to successfully deliver against them, with the best talent we can find, so that they stay and fulfill their contracts and complete the work.