7.13 The final stage focuses, prior to going out to tender, on the potential market capacity to deliver the project, and then on the quality of the competitive interest in it. This stage should inform the way the project is taken to market, and the timing of that competition. In the very few cases where it is not possible to achieve suitable competitive tension for a project, prudent investment planning by Departments should ensure that it will still be possible to procure the project conventionally. Given the previous assessments, the probability of changing procurement routes at this stage should be very small.