Originally Posted by
BEagle
pr00ne, fine - since boom AAR is outside the contract the MoD has with AirTanker, then a new contract to provide boom AAR should be put out to tender.
Or preferably, should be entirely in-house and well away from the ridiculously £1M+ per day absurdity of a PFI.
BEagle,
All well and good, with the small exception of the 'exclusion provision of AAR to the RAF' clause being in the contract, as specified, required and written by the MoD. As to that £1m per day absurdity, just how much do you think provision of 14 aircraft, training, maintenance and servicing, upgrades, a new hangar and squadron accommodation, simulator and airworthiness provision would have actually cost the MoD? It would have been a fortune and simply was not available at the time as up front money.