Okay.
What I'm trying to understand about the procurement system here is that Dalian identifies as an indigenous company. It benefits from indigenous set-asides in getting procurements.
In the case of these projects with CBSA, in the process of getting this contract they may have benefited from that set-aside. You said they hired you to do the work, and you are not an indigenous company.
It seems like a good deal for you. You were hired to do work. It seems like a good deal for Dalian in that they don't have internal IT capacity. They presumably didn't add value to the project. They made money; you made money. However, because of their involvement, taxpayers paid more, and this seems like a pretty significant manipulation of the indigenous set-aside rule.
Do you have a sense of why Amazon didn't just get this contract directly to move those files to the cloud? Is it because of a requirement around indigenous procurement, or is there some other reason why you didn't get that contract directly?