It is UK Government policy to have no commonality with anyone elses, therefore rendering the sales potential of any of our ex equipment a none starter, whilst additionally increasing the final bill for the said item, ensuring delays and overruns in both time and costs, and finally producing an item that is slower, less capable, none compatible and more expensive than anyones elses.....
How are Senior Officers going to get promoted and moved on if we deviate from this method? You haven't thought this through, have you?