Table:
|  |  | For the Year Ended |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | January 31, 2020 | February 1, 2019 | February 2, 2018 |
| Purchases and leases of products and purchases of services(1) | $242 | $200 | $142 |
| Dell subsidiary support and administrative costs | 119 | 145 | 212 |
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We engaged with Dell in the following ongoing related party transactions, which resulted in costs to us:
• We purchase and lease products and purchase services from Dell.
• From time to time, we and Dell enter into agreements to collaborate on technology projects, and we pay Dell for services provided to us by Dell related to such projects.
• In certain geographic regions where we do not have an established legal entity, we contract with Dell subsidiaries for support services and support from Dell personnel who are managed by us. The costs incurred by Dell on our behalf related to these employees are charged to us with a mark-up intended to approximate costs that would have been incurred had we contracted for such services with an unrelated third party. These costs are included as expenses on our consolidated statements of income and primarily include salaries, benefits, travel and occupancy expenses. Dell also incurs certain administrative costs on our behalf in the U.S. that are recorded as expenses on our consolidated statements of income.
• In certain geographic regions, Dell files a consolidated indirect tax return, which includes value added taxes and other indirect taxes collected by us from our customers. We remit the indirect taxes to Dell and Dell remits the tax payment to the foreign governments on our behalf.
• From time to time, we invoice end users on behalf of Dell for certain services rendered by Dell. Cash related to these services is collected from the end user by us and remitted to Dell.
• From time to time, we also enter into agency arrangements with Dell that enable us to sell our subscriptions and services, leveraging the Dell enterprise relationships and end customer contracts.
Information about our payments for such arrangements during the periods presented consisted of the following (table in millions):
1) Amount includes indirect taxes that were remitted to Dell during the periods presented.
We also purchase Dell products through Dell’s channel partners. Purchases of Dell products through Dell’s channel partners were not significant during the periods presented.
Question:
What was the percentage change in the Dell subsidiary support and administrative costs between 2019 and 2020?
Answer: (119-145)/145 = -17.93