Mr. John Sydenham:

We structure the major schemes through the procurement of firms of consultants by competitive tender. They provide services across a range of disciplines such as design. There is what is known on the projects as an "employer’s representative" and our project manager on the ground provides that service. Within that, there is a quantity surveying function and a cost management function. To get that range of disciplines in the way that the market is currently structured, we would procure those services from an individual firm. The procurement process involves specifying all those disciplines and the scope of works required during the currency of that particular contract. That is how we do those particular contracts. As with any contract, it is a judgment as distinct from a hard and fast rule. There are very clear procedures vis-à-vispublic procurement. As to the various stages we go through, we look at outturn at the end of particular stages.