I chair difficult decisions.

For nine years I was the outside fairness advisor brought in when a public organization had to run a competitive process and be seen to run it fairly. Ministries, hospitals, universities, school boards, municipalities.

Forty-plus processes. Over six billion dollars. Every one of them open to formal challenge. Every one of them held.

I've sat in public meetings where anyone could walk in and ask anything. I've told bidders they lost, and explained why. I've chaired evaluation teams until they reached a position all of them could defend.

Twenty years in procurement, fifteen of them in the public sector, including running procurement from the inside. I know what your team is up against, because I've been on it.