Thank you for your question.
On what we normally require at the border through the secretariat if you're looking at outsourcing the management of a specific project or private-public partnership, we've adopted best practices that other governments have put in place in the private sector. Departments have to bring forward a very detailed business case on the overall costs and benefits to the government in moving forward with an outsourcing proposal. Often the advantage is sharing the risks and rewards. Where the private sector firm can provide upfront investment in some of these, particularly if it's IT related, they tend to be very lumpy investments, and the costs are pretty significant up front.
There are normally efficiencies gained in the delivery, and we can work out arrangements for sharing the profits from the efficiencies over time. So it's a matter of looking at that from a cost-benefit perspective to determine if it is better than doing it ourselves. Every case we look at is quite different, and that's the approach we take.