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This is an area where there's been so much experimentation by governments across the United States, trying to figure out what's the right balance in terms of their contracting practices.... In that process, though, there's been this commitment by the Brooks Act to qualification-based contracting. That's a long-standing commitment in the United States, and it's been an important one because it injects into our procurement process a focus on quality and making sure that those levels of expertise are brought into the decision-making by public sector actors.