Thank you very much for the question. I can certainly answer it on behalf of PSPC. Other colleagues, such as Scott, may want to talk a bit from the Shared Services perspective.
You rightly point out that there is a balance between the use of external consulting versus building in-house capacity. We are looking at that on an ongoing basis to determine when it's appropriate to invest in building the capacity internally to address our requirements versus those areas that may continually be outsourced because of their high area of expertise.
In terms of the dollar spend for 2024-25, the latest publicly available figures, PSPC spent approximately $3 billion on professional services externally. Of that, a large portion is related to construction and architectural engineering, at approximately $1 billion in total.
On management consulting, which is the area in which there is a bit more discretion, our spend was approximately $130 million in 2024-25. It represents a very small portion of our total professional services spend.
