Following the meeting, on October 27, 2011, Weinschel sent a "procurement questionnaire" to the Civil Appeal Enterprises in order to assess the future outlook and the needs with regard to VMware licenses for a period of three years (P/89, see also P/91). The mapping of needs and expectations for the future is intended to enable a civil appeal to examine whether the engagement in the ELA transaction is economically worthwhile (Weinschel, p. 614, paras. 8-14, Oshri, p. 4613, paras. 18-23; see also P/91, ELTA representative's email message dated October 27, 2011).
The examination and data collection proceedings in a civil appeal were lengthy and lasted several weeks (P/91 - Weinschel's request of 14 November 2011, which has not yet been answered; partial response by ELTA of 22 November 2011; see also N/194).
In between, on November 6, 2011, Vinshal issued a license renewal request for a one-year (2012) license maintenance request. We have seen above that at that point in time the Civil Appeal did not know whether there would be an ELA transaction at the end of the day and quotations were required in case the Civil Appeal chooses to renew the licenses for one year, as it has done in the past, and not enter into an ELA transaction (see paragraph 887 above).
The defense's argument that the "acquisition questionnaire" – which was intended to collect the data necessary to examine the feasibility of the ELA transaction – was part of the license renewal bill, which revolved around another transaction, for the maintenance of licenses for one year (according to the defense, see, for example, paragraphs 198-200 of Wei's response to the indictment; In any event, even if the BLM had been sent for the purpose of assessing the maintenance costs as part of the feasibility of engaging in the ELA transaction , this would not have justified or legitimized the coordination of the proposals submitted in response to it).
On December 1, 2011, after the proposals were received for the Renewal of Licenses, Weinschel went on maternity leave. From the evidence that was brought, it appears that there was no continuation of the renewal of licenses afterwards. It also emerges that Menashe was not involved at all in the license renewal campaign.