No, it was quite the opposite. We were pursuing Rogers and had made our interest known, and Rogers did not want to entertain our offer.
This committee may hear from Rogers shortly that it could not entertain our offer because we did not enter an NDA with them. This is untrue. Rogers proposed an NDA to us that was tantamount to shutting down our proposal and bid before it even started. It gave Rogers unfettered veto over our capital partners, over our advisers. It was a gag order in terms of discussing anything with government, or publicly, about our proposal. Our bid would have been shut down before it started. We would not be sitting here talking to you today had we signed that NDA. We did sign an NDA back to Rogers, one that was a market standard NDA that would have protected all of its confidential information.
That said, we did not need to even have an NDA. We made an offer on an unsolicited funded basis anyway, because of our knowledge of the business. We built the business.