2.50 The Department estimated that the likely costs of the termination, re-procurement and new contract would amount to £331 million, which, together with Departmental and other project costs of £74 million, would bring the total cost of this option to £405 million. The Department's lawyers considered that the Department had a good case for terminating the contract and recovering damages but that ICL would counter-claim leading to litigation, which could be a long, slow and expensive process. In practical terms, the roll-out of the infrastructure to Magistrates' Courts Committees would stop and could not be resumed until a new supplier had been procured, which might take up to 15 months. In the meantime, ICL would be required to support the infrastructure already rolled out. The Department expected such support to be minimal and no improvements to the infrastructure would have been possible.