Dawn Leaf: So I guess I would just make 3 points to add to what has been said. One thing is buying IT services again whether it is going to federal share services, commercial, cloud providers. It is not like buying a chair. There is a lot you have to do to your infrastructure within your organization they even get there. You have to have the band with for us alone since we are all over the US. That was 530 circuits that had to be upgraded in between 6 and 9 months. An understanding that this is not just an acquisition programme planned, but actual programme managing plan that you need for your communications if you have bargaining unit, represented employees, how you can do the cost model. That piece you really do need to manage. The second point I would make is that with all the respect to my colleagues from industry, there is a natural tendency in the business models just sort of optimize from the vendor or from the supplier’s perspective and it get back to that broker service provider. For example, what we found, not provider, since they have federal community cloud clients as if there was a total communication’s problem. The assumption that it was the problem with the agency or the telecom provider. In truth that was not the case so we spent about 30 days trying to resolve that and with our vendor to their credit to change that model so that you do not have to sequentially prove that it is not their issues so that everybody starts working at the same time. That is not, but it is exacerbated in cloud because of the broker law. The last thing I would say again with both federal shared services and commercial cloud services is that that old concept of independent verification and validation function, someone who can technically assess what is going on is very important because you are not as close to it. This concept of people not wanting to give up their servers because, because they are server huggers. There may be truth to that, but there is also that delegation again of authority that you are responsible for and having a technical mechanism to assess it, not just the acquisition piece.
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