Those are bizarre responses to your direct questions
Is there any chance you posted Marty's answers out of the order she gave them to you? I'll explain why I ask.
Instead of taking the opportunity to address the elephant in the room about whether this deal and the Niger Fleet Renewal project are the same, her responses were generic and non-committal, and frankly, Mik is right to have qualms about such indirect answers.
The only part of her first answer that seemed to be in direct reference to your first question was "our representatives said not to worry about these". In the context of your first question and her answer, the only plural noun that qualifies to be referenced as "these" is the news articles. Of course, I'm not sure what cause we would have to "worry" about the articles or anything else she might be referencing in that question.
The only other interpretation I can think to assign to her answers is that Niger is required to have at least 3 different companies bid on the fleet renewal project and Ameramex can't claim in any way that they are already selected as the winner of the bid (even if they believe that they are). In a typical bidding process, if a company knows they already have the bid before it is complete - that opens the door for all kinds of legal problems. That also might explain why they are now deliberately deferring to this mantra of "until it is complete...it isn't done" .
If you happened to have reversed the order that her answers were provided to you, then it is possible (even likely) that "these" could be the other bidders who we are not supposed to worry about because "we are the only company with a signed agreement".
