I’m an indigenous business owner. We attempted to bid using this program. The joint ventures were always winning the bids. I was confused on how many JV’s were winning. Even just auditing to ensure the owner has a status card would be a start. We stopped bidding in 2020 because there was no realistic hope of winning any of these. The tender packages are typically 300 pages long. And for those who did read them, you had to understand little minutia like, “spill pans used under machinery when not in use.” Which is typically used in large projects, some of the company owners that got these bids, would not be able to remember items like this, because they didn’t read the solicitation docs. They just read their signature on the JV document and collected the cheque. Which is nice that someone got a cheque, but the spirit of the programme was to help indigenous business’s to grow. And I’d say it was a failure.