I'd like to say thank you for the question.... It's pretty loaded.
I mentioned the idea of thresholds earlier and I think that would definitely need to apply here. There would certainly be a need to bring in the experts from the contracting world. It's a complex world. One of the things that I don't think we want to lose sight of is we want the government to be seen as a favoured giver of contracts. You want people to do business with the government. You want to facilitate this so that we get competition in the bids.
I think a threshold in terms of where it would apply is important. Also, it's defining the degree to which the identification of these benefits, as I would say, is auditable. Do you want this to be forensic audit ready? I would submit not. Do you want it to be an indication that must be verified through some measure? Yes.
In that way I think it would be incremental to the bid process, and as I said earlier, contractors have to do these calculations when they're preparing their bids anyway, so we would be asking them to identify some of them more fully.