This is another interesting aspect.
If you are forced to compete on price, if you're forced to meet a price, then you accept risk. Another thing the shipyards have been doing is transferring as much risk as possible to their suppliers and contractors. They're not making a balanced decision on where risk should be.
As soon as you transfer a risk to an equipment supplier or to any other party involved, their price goes up. You've avoided the risk, but you're still able to charge the same amount of profit on the project. You're boosting the price and you're gaining profit at no particular risk to yourself.
There needs to be some form of price discipline. That price discipline, in part, needs to be based on the government's having informed knowledge of what the price of these ships should be. Many other governments around the world give their government projects to the shipyards in their countries. They do that all the time, whether it be the Dutch, the French, the Italians or whoever. They understand how to control cost.
A good example from the Netherlands is that when the Dutch government was given a quote for building a new ship, they took pieces of that away from the shipyard and did it in third-party facilities because they thought the cost of those elements was unreasonable.
These are the sorts of measures you can take. Control the costs. Make sure that's being done in an intelligent manner.