Mr. John McMahon:

I omitted to say that in the contract construction, we engage what is called a "contract administrator". That is an independent, external firm of quantity surveyors that is contracted to do the due diligence on the tender prices and rates that are submitted by the various contractors. We hoped there would be more such submissions but there were not. That external firm did the due diligence on the tender prices that were submitted. There are 3,000 individual items in the contract. It is a complicated, extensive and comprehensive contract. That firm did due diligence on the 3,000 individual items in the contract and on the basis of its independent analysis, recommended the acceptance or otherwise of the contract, as the case may be. Before the current contract was placed for tender, that firm did its full due diligence on the individual elements of that contract. It took quite a while of toing and froing with the contractor and the firm of quantity surveyors to get the thing right but it was done. We are satisfied that the best value for money was obtained at the time. One of the big benefits of a measured time maintenance contract, as the Chairman alluded to, was-----