For all of the legal fees for anything that might accompany it, if you had two companies playing off against each other in dealing with the prime, the government was probably forced into a situation where it had to take legal action against one or both of the providers of either the service or the goods. The responsibility would now shift to the prime who has subcontractors or whatever the case might be. As a single point of accountability, they would then factor into their costs, for the service provided to the Government of Canada, all of the costs they would have to bear.
From a cost perspective, are we any further ahead by going with this total package procurement?