Government Operations committee  Mr. McCauley, that story remains the date. The award of the design contract will be later in 2018.

Government Operations committee  The RFP closed at the end of November. We've been working now on evaluating the bids. It's an extremely complicated process, as you can imagine—

Government Operations committee  —making sure that we get the right design for the country, moving forward. That will be completed later this year, in 2018.

Government Operations committee  Later this year.

Government Operations committee  It will be later in 2018, but I can absolutely assure you that we are fully conscious of the need to proceed with speed on this. All resources are on deck to make this happen.

Government Operations committee  Not yet.

Government Operations committee  The team is fully working on the evaluation, I can assure you, at as fast a speed as they can.

Government Operations committee  These are funds in the supplementary estimates in front of you that continue a program that was started in 2012. That was a five-year program. There were evaluations done and a decision made to continue that program. It funds a group of auditors who look primarily at sole-sourc

Government Operations committee  We will be looking for sure at a contract of that size to ensure that it is appropriately managed.

Government Operations committee  For these types of large shipbuilding contracts, that's something we'd be looking at for sure.

Government Operations committee  Yes, we will be looking at these types of large contracts for sure.

Government Operations committee  Yes. This program is used for those large defence—

Government Operations committee  —contracts like the shipbuilding ones. Absolutely, yes.

Government Operations committee  No, no. These types of contracts are exactly the ones that this program is intended to look at.

Government Operations committee  It is used for three main categories of activities. First is actually leasing the facilities, so leasing space here in Ottawa for the summit team as well as space in Quebec for hosting the summit. Second is providing a range of services for departments, so procurement services,