we are with alan chvotkin, with the professional service council.e will put the numbers on the bottom of the screen, two numbers, one for federal contractors, if you're in that line of work and we want to hear what your statuses. and we want to hear from all others as well. we will keep the numbers on the bottom of the scream for a couple of minutes. -- of the screen for a couple of minutes. i want to throw a number at you in terms of the overall impact. reading this at bloomberg. the shutdown threatened $200 million a day in federal contracts. that sounds like a lot of money. put this in perspective. guest: the federal government contracts for over $400 billion a year in the purchase of goods and services. inut half of that is services, everything from information technology to engineering services to research. that is an average number based on past spending, an assumption that that's what the government spends each day in contracting -- that the government spends that each day in contracting. many of that is in services, and that's were member co