Originally Posted by
Rheinstorff
All commercial officers belong to the Cabinet Office and it is they, not MOD, that let HMG’s contracts of this scale. That’s not to say the requirement setting doesn’t rest with MOD, but even that has to be agreed by the commercial types and can be changed by them. That’s how you exert central fiscal authority in the UK these days. I don’t agree with it, but it seems we’re stuck with it.
I know it’s fashionable to trot out the ‘MOD can’t contract for toffee’ mantra, but in truth MOD (literally) can’t contract at all in this case.
Credit (or discredit if that’s even a thing) where it is due?
You sure? What are all those hundreds and hundreds (literally) of Commercial Officers doing at Abbey Wood then?
So at what value is a contract handed over from the MoD to the Cabinet Office, assuming you are correct.