Numbers are being thrown around. I'd just like to clarify for people, if you look at the Auditor General's report, what she said was “Renewing the lease at Place Victoria cost $2.5 million more than the winning bid in the tendering process”, based on $431 per square foot.

Member States may allow producers of electricity from renewable energy sources wishing to be connected to the grid to issue a call for tender for the connection work.

In terms of how it's expressed, it did close two weeks prior to taking a decision to renew at 800 Place Victoria.

(5) The Green Paper entitled "Towards a European Strategy for the Security of Energy Supply" notes that the European Union is becoming increasingly dependent on external energy sources and that its dependence could rise to 70 % in 20 to 30 years' time (compared with 50 % at present) and therefore stresses the need to balance supply policy against clear action for a demand policy and calls for a genuine change in consumers' behaviour so as to orientate demand towards better managed, more efficient and more environmentally friendly consumption, particularly in the transport and building sectors, and to give priority to the development of new and renewabl ...[+++]e sources on the energy supply side in order to respond to the challenge of global warming.

(h) the form of the contract which is the subject of the invitation to tender: purchase, lease, hire or hire-purchase, or any combination of these; and

Member States may allow producers of electricity from renewable energy sources wishing to be connected to the grid to issue a call for tender for the connection work.