barbara hale. we very much share your concerns that the marketplace's response to our second request for proposal was not as complete as we have asked. all the issues you delineated in your comments, mr. chair, that we came back to the bettors and asked again was just that, our second request for that information. so the initial rfp cover that information and requested it from the bidders. we did not receive complete bids. rather than coming to you and saying, no complete bids, we are done with that round of rfp, we decided to sit down with each respondent and have a one-on-one with them where we could demonstrate our strong interest in having a perfected bid submitted to us. we were also cognizant of the fact that with the holidays, we might not have all bidders respond if we did not extend the period. so we extended it from december 6 to december 10. we had it staged so that we would be able to bring you the results of the process in a more wholesome way today, but could not because of that need

. >> barbara hale, assistant general manager for power. it is not our intention to divert from the direction we were given historic plea. however, having said that, in practice, what we do in order to track the approval rates for commercial and enterprise department accounts is we charge some of the otherwise applicable pg&e rates, and in this circumstance, the service provided at transmission levels so the other was the applicable rate is not a cpuc-approve rate. there is a little bit of variation because of that. and then, what we are looking to do is maximize our revenue stream, not just recover our costs. what might be helpful is to look at another data point. i think the resolution language if you are referring to does talk about recovering costs and thus also, in the body of the agenda item, described the fact that we are looking to charge comparable rates charged by pg&e. what i have by way of a slide to illustrate, if the secretary could show the slide please, are the rates that are charged by pg&e and the rates that are charged by