Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to build a bit on what my good friend Mr. McCauley was asking with regard to, but I'll go back to the TBIPS procurement vehicle and to SBIPS.
I think, when SBIPS was created, back in around 2009 or 2008, the point was to focus on solutions that.... It was easier for the government to manage costs, because I think there may have been some change orders that often happened through TBIPS. I'm just wondering whether or not your department is doing the analysis.
I think the Auditor General touched on a good point as well. I understand and fully respect our obsession to ensure that there is a fair, open, transparent and competitive process, but are the internal processes too long? Do they sort of discourage your client departments across the government, so that they may not be incentivized to use the current processes in place? They may go to you and say, “Well, this is why. We ran out of time. We need to do a sole-source contract.”
I hope I was clear enough, but if you can build on that....