Thank you. That's a good question.
I talked about speed. Speed is critical sometimes. Part of what gets delayed is that if there's a part of DND that wants to do a small local purchase order, they have restrictions on how much they're allowed to spend without having to go through a more formal process. Sometimes they're not aware of what those levels are, but the fact of the matter is that those levels haven't changed in probably close to a decade, and we have seen, as you know, that inflation has gone rampant. The price of product is through the roof. In the province of Ontario, we've had labour increases since 2016.
The basic cost of product is higher, so when they come to us and say they would like to buy this many widgets, they can't buy that many widgets anymore. They either have to buy fewer of them, so they're not getting what they want, or they're not going to get the right product that they want, or it has to go back for reapproval. This all takes time. As you know, when you're talking about that small procurement, that's a piece of critical kit that they might need. It might be something that they're going to the Arctic with and they need it in two months, but the process is going to take two months.
I think some of the changes are to maybe update some of the procurement levels that these companies have access to or the money that can be spent for a single purchase order.