We're actually down to less than 48 months now. I'm being conservative in what I publicly say. I'm not sure we can do much more when we've gone to performance-based procurement.
In the past it took five or six years to write a technical specification for something that actually turned out to be kind of a Frankenstein solution that no one had ever built. You take all the technical, operational, and cost risks associated with that.
So we are doing performance-based procurement. We are taking off-the-shelf solutions. We're minimizing technical specifications. We're going to work hard to synchronize our work with Public Works, but I'm not sure you're going to get much better than where we are.
These are tough programs that involve a lot of money. Parliamentarians, cabinet ministers, industry, and lobbyists all want a say. It takes more time in a democracy to make sure all stakeholders have a comfort level about where you're going than it takes for me to finalize the statement of requirement and the RFP with my colleagues. You get billion-dollar programs and you get them south of sort of 36 months. I'm not sure you're going to get a lot better.