When the member referred to information technology projects, he was referring instead to the development of highly complex information systems spread over a number of years. In those cases, we indicated that the best practices in the industry revealed that it was preferable to divide those at times enormous projects into smaller projects and to establish criteria enabling us to determine whether or not we should continue.
There is a difference between developing an information system and a long-term contract for services. I believe you are referring to service supply contracts. It's up to the government to make those choices, which are virtually policy choices, and to determine how it wishes to organize the supply of services. We expect it to conduct an analysis of advantages and disadvantages, but if it issues a request for proposals for services over a number of years, we wouldn't make any comments, provided the analysis was done and the contract award process was conducted in accordance with the rules.