There are two aspects to your question, I think. One is whether this is normal. Yes, it is. In terms of government procurement, there are times when there's a call for proposals, and none of them are acceptable. Then you have to decide whether to issue another call for proposals or what you will do.
In this case, while none of the proposals was acceptable--none of them crossed the bar, so that process was done--we had the information to say that in fact it was no longer needed. In that kind of context, why would you go back to anybody? Why would you go out? Why would you initiate a new process?
That's why we had to take this. As you said, this was a long process, and we were all committed to it. We are trying to respond to a need, and it turns out that the need isn't there any more, so you have to change course. That's why we had discussions through the fall. We took all of the proposals seriously, and tried to look at them all in terms of what was necessary. At the end of the day, the decision was fairly simple.
We have capacity that the proposals that existed didn't meet. It would have been a different discussion if one of the proposals passed, and there wasn't the capacity need. That would be a different political challenge from what it would be if the capacity weren't there and none of the proposals met the need.
The fact is that given both facts, that the proposals didn't meet the bar and that the need was no longer there, for me there is a simple, scientific decision: why would you invest in something that's not needed any more?