Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a procurement question with respect to this government’s policy. I have to create a bit of a scenario to premise this question on.

The Government of the Northwest Territories goes to public tender for a service and product. Three bids come in that are within a very small percentage of each other, which would indicate that would probably be the market value. Then we find out that the Government of the Northwest Territories only budgeted $700,000 for $1 million worth of product and work. So the Government of the Northwest Territories, the department, then goes back to the drawing board and realizes that they were wrong in their estimate and instead of talking to the person who was low bid on the first round, they go back to tender for exactly the same product and service again, and potentially the same people bid again.

This is a problem in our procurement system. I’m not really sure who should answer that question. But my question is, would it not be reasonable and fair to have a discussion with the person who was the low bid?