Mr. Chair, what I can say is that it is not uncommon to have a time gap between the time when companies have to make their submission as part of a procurement process and when a task authorization is issued for a piece of work, particularly for multi-stage IT projects. In those cases, there may be resources that are available at the time of bidding that would be willing to do the work. There can be a passage of time before you get into a later stage of a project where you need to engage those resources, and they're no longer available because there's been a length of time.
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