I'm certainly not recommending that you go into the procurement process completely, because that's a very long process. But what I am recommending is that there may be an opportunity to look at a situation where Canadian innovation has come out of federally sponsored research activities and there's either a start-up or an existing company that is commercializing a product and looking for that first customer, that they would have some avenue to go after, similar to an unsolicited proposal type of process.
ITAC modelled their strategic procurement offer around that process. This meant you could make an unsolicited proposal to utilize this technology and find a customer inside the government. The existing program for unsolicited proposals makes it very difficult to get your proposal accepted, but putting some rules around Canadian-based IP, companies are looking for their first customer and how they would access the government, because many of them know what agency within the government they would like to target as that first customer. So giving them the advantage of finding that first reference customer within the government as a paying customer and as a reference customer on feed-back for that trial would be my recommendation.