I would say no. I wouldn't think it was normal at all, but I will preface that by saying that this was like the second week of the pandemic, and there was craziness everywhere.
The reason that the sole-source and the national security exemptions exist is for emergencies. This was declared a national emergency.
In terms of the decisions around why we could or could not use a particular company such as Deloitte, that was not my decision to make.