Yes.
When we select agencies, we follow the contract regulations with a committee that's put together to do the selection. Once an agency is selected, it becomes like a standing offer.
In appendix U of that policy, it says that if more than one agency is assigned to a department—for example, Health Canada and Tourism had two or three—then every time there's a new campaign, it should be recompeted. That's what we didn't follow in appendix U.
And I say “we”: my organization and every other department in this town. Because as long as I was there, once agencies were assigned to departments, you never competed projects between those agencies.