i would like to add on the outreach, we do outreach for any prebids going out, we set up a system to an e-mail blast and we don't just stop there because some contractors are not that the technology sophisticated. so we make sure we educate them on what is happening on the shipyard. we do about 60 of these on the 90-day period. under our technical assistance, we noticed in the door that 50-51 already started and local contractors were coming in the office already asking questions and the questions were what is on the controlled insurance, how do i evaluate that in my bid? what is the proper way to do it? we had to mobilize tmi and the rest of the team to put on an owner controlled insurance workshop within a 2-week period to try to give them enough time to identify how they were going to to incorporate it in their bid. there were 17 people that attended and it was an excellent piece. most of the time we like more lead time. this was to give them an opportunity to build capacity to participate on the project. since then, one of the things that we had to take a hard look at is that the

the president of oeb yashey, our general contractor and we have insisted on improved communication, prebid, during the bidding process and most importantly post bid. we understand that our success is totally dependent by engaged a local work force and increased local opportunities. why the market is hot right now, and that serves to our advantage in different aspects of development. actualary -- it is a disadvantage to local participation. you may ask why, but the circumstances are that established local sb's we have created a legitimate business presence. are probably already enjoying the capacity with the work that is going on in this side of the city which is very act ever. so we will attempt to forward, accelerate the learning curve of those that need some business help. and bring them to viable business enter -- enterprises. we have butler of butler enterprises of the construction assistance program and he will talk later about the specific of our program. now that we learned some of the issues on 50-51. what steps are we going to implement going forward? we have in instructed our gen

we follow up with a systematically normally three within the timeframe of a prebid meeting and outreach workshop or any activities going on and we make everybody is aware to what is going on at the shipyard. >> how many people on your list and what kind of associations? >> that's an excellent question. we have every association and every chamber of commerce on our list and the cac and stakeholder organizations and when you take a look at the actual contractors, we taylor the outreach list to the scope of work. for instance if it's underground utility we tailor our list to underground utilities. we keep advertising for somebody that lays carpet and underground utility they don't want the information that you are disseminating. the list that we have for contractors is almost 500 companies. it's not only contractors but we also have professional services, construction related companies whether they are surveying or testing what have you. >> okay. maybe i will talk to you some other time. thank you for the information. >> thank you for the great presentation. particularly i thank lan ar for