We have 28 providers that were pre-qualified to bid on our proposals. We are doing our core and aggregation...on the street right now. We had five companies come forward and make an offer to bid. We are getting very significant interest from the private sector, but we have a large $200-million pot of funding, and we have a lot of sites on the table. Our members are saying, “We want you to bid together on all of these sites”, which makes it difficult for the existing providers because they may lose customers if they don't bid. Therefore, we have a carrot-and-stick approach. The carrot is that we have some money to help you build. The stick is that if you don't bid, we might take your best customers away. That's the way we're getting the competition to market.
On February 8th, 2018. See this statement in context.