I'd like to start by saying that under no circumstances did KPMG feel there was a conflict of interest. We followed all of our internal processes to comply with our policies and procedures along those lines.
To your comment about social events and the like, you have to remember that our work was initiated in September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Under no circumstances were any of our team members engaged in any of those activities prior, during or after our contracting.
I do not agree with the characterization that there was a conflict of interest in what we had done, either to procure the work or to conduct it.