Okay, I dig it! Also, I can see that there could be room for an ongoing continuation of this beyond the primary storyline, if interest held, as the mech designs that didn't get selected could still likely find other buyers, meaning that the mech development and refinement could carry on long after this particular contract, except instead of the stakes being "who gets the contract", the stakes would be "Can you KEEP your contract". This could even lead to the organizations holding the mech company contracts putting out requests for mechs that can do specific things, leaving it up to the players to design mechs to fill that specific niche, and how well they perform impacts how well the patron organizations do and how quick they are to give out more work.