This is part of the problem, the fact it doesn't exist.
I want to start with some basics, Chair, because we do have a little time.
The Auditor General said in her report, “We have concluded for two reasons that the contracts were not tendered in a fair and equitable manner.” Today the Auditor General again stated, “Government contracts should be awarded through a process that is fair, equitable, and transparent. We found important contracts that were not, despite various warning signs.”
Yet today, Mr. Bennett, in your comments in your second-to-last paragraph, you say, “In our view, which we have expressed to the Auditor General, the process we followed, taken as a whole, sufficiently compensated for any error in the one element of the RFP information, and has resulted in a fair and open competition.”
Right from the get-go the Auditor General has concluded twice that it was not fair and equitable. You, sir, are taking a position that it is. Let's have that discussion.