Government Operations committee  I assume you're talking about the selection process for the third shipyard. The process is under way. We shared with Davie shipyard [technical difficulties] this summer. We expect to have a response by the end of the year, which will start the process of financial audits and nego

Government Operations committee  We sent Davie a request for proposal.

Government Operations committee  I'm talking about the selection process for the third shipyard to qualify Davie for the construction of large vessels over 1,000 tons. We issued them a request for proposal this summer and are expecting their proposal in the coming months. This proposal will allow us to begin th

Government Operations committee  I think it's hard to answer this question without going back to basics about this contract. It's a cost-reimbursable incentive fee contract with a ceiling. There's a ceiling established for the delivery of the six ships. We are still working within the ceiling that has been estab

Government Operations committee  The early.... The first, second and third of the 15 ships will still be in a stage where we're trying to learn about building them, and the base payment will evolve as we mature the construction processes and we'll go towards—

Government Operations committee  It's earlier than that—three to four years from February 2019 in design, and then start of construction after that.

Government Operations committee  The budget remains at $3.4 billion, and we're about to start negotiations for the construction contracts with the yard.

Government Operations committee  It is being finalized, and again, back to the re—

Government Operations committee  I said it is being.

Government Operations committee  Again, going back to the resequencing question you had earlier for us, it was also about putting all efforts on the joint ship design work—getting it done so that we could start construction—and then spending more time on the offshore oceanic science vessel. All efforts are now o

Government Operations committee  On the two different contexts—

Government Operations committee  On the CSC, I think it's fair to say that the early ships will still be in the design and prototype kind of stage and that you can expect a base payment that will be more along the lines of time and materials, which is a typical approach internationally. As we mature—

Government Operations committee  It's so that we can establish parameters that can allow us to go more into a performance-based contracting approach with incentive fees and, eventually, potentially even with a fixed price for the production line. This is an approach that is used—

Government Operations committee  Correct. It has not been decided yet, but what I can say is that the early ships will have—

Government Operations committee  Not the way we're tackling this issue. In fact, we are trying to mitigate risks to costs.