If I could, Madam Chair, it really is Public Works who managed the contract awarding process. In many cases, there is an interdepartmental team that will work on the evaluation, the criteria, and all the rest of it. But Public Works is the contracting authority, and they had the responsibility.
I'd refer you to paragraph 16, in chapter 10, where they said there was an independent team that looked at this. I think legal services and people thought it was okay.
But there was certainly little in the files that indicated this mandatory requirement had been met. Given that it was a new company, one would have expected a lot more care in assessing the financial stability before giving a contract that would represent some $2 billion of flow-through of funds.
We were critical and said none of them should have received the contract. We'll look next time, when the contract's awarded, and hopefully they will have more due diligence around ensuring that mandatory requirements are met.