Mr. Chair, the concept between life-cycle costing, or through life cycle, actually goes from the beginning of the acquisition of an asset—for example, the planning, the procurement, the actual cost of the asset, the maintenance, the operations—all the way through to its disposition. That is what is called a through life cycle. So it covers the cost of an asset from the planning to the purchase to the final disposition of the asset. Depending on the type of the asset, it could cover 25 years, 30 years, or 10 years. It has to cover all of the aspects of it.
