Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Last year the Legislature asked for clarification on a variety of issues. One of the areas that was of concern was negotiated contracts. As a result of that concern, a draft negotiated contracts policy was developed and submitted to the standing committees for their consideration. We have not taken any further steps on that until we get feedback from the standing committee. With regard to request for proposals, I am not currently doing any work in that area. The department did develop an information brochure that was circulated to MLAs in February, 1997, outlining the methodology the department uses to award contracts through a competitive process, as well as the alternatives which are available in a non-competitive methodology, either sole-sourced contracts or negotiated contracts. The government contracting regulations contain the details which guide us in our utilization of the tendering process or utilizing requests for proposals. At this point, I am not doing any further work on it because our view in Public Works is that there is sufficient information in the contracting regulations for that process to be clear. The department gave direction to its superintendents last year to provide consistent and standard information to proponents who were unsuccessful in their bids when they submitted proposals through requests for proposals. We have been following a practice of providing fairly standard information to contractors so they are aware of their success, the reasons for their success or their lack of success in a particular bid. Other than that, I am not working on any other procedures. Thank you.