Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe we said yesterday that we did it in this manner because it was a fast-track project. We decided that we would hire a project manager for this project. It is not an all-inclusive type of contract or tender that was let. It includes a number of different aspects of the project. Both phases are the same.
In phase one, it could have been as much as 20 different tenders put out for different aspects of the work. It was not just one or two. There were one or two large portions to it, but overall, it was broken down into quite a few different tenders. These tenders were put out by the project manager, PCL.
Some of these projects were in the million dollar range and they were quite large in relation to what is normally handled by local contractors, so therefore, they found themselves having to go south for materials, having to go south for manpower, for everything, because of the already inflated market. Everything became higher cost -- everything.
That is where the overall aspect of this is, that we are hoping that by waiving the BIP, we will get more bidders on the broken down portions of the contracts. Tenders will be let, and they are already let.
Some of these portions of the project, Mr. Speaker, there is no expertise in the Territory for that type of work. These people are coming from down south. We do not expect to gain anything in that aspect of the work. However, we feel that we may gain something on the electrical or the mechanical aspects of the projects, things like that where we may receive better bids. That is why we are doing what we are doing, but it is not one or two large contracts. It is broken down into many portions of the project. Thank you.