Okay. Still, it's more than 20%. That's huge. That's a huge number of contracts totalling hundreds of millions of dollars that are awarded non‑competitively, once again. You mentioned an example of a national security argument. You also mentioned that this wasn't always the case, especially today, when the pandemic is behind us. Again, these are huge sums of money.
There are procurement rules, and exceptions are provided, but it's important that they remain exceptions. It becomes problematic when one in four or one in five contracts are non‑competitive. In this case, these are no longer exceptions; the awarding of non‑competitive contracts is practically becoming the norm. I think that's a problem. It's also a problem for a lot of people, because there's no way to demonstrate good value for taxpayers' money.