If projects didn't slip so long then the requirements wouldn't creep so much!!
No rocket science - just that an aircraft contracted for the year 2000 (shall we say for arguements sake!!) and not coming into service until 2012 or 2013 is going to need modernising before it arrives - no sh!t the requirements change in that 13 year period - the whole bl00dy world changes in that time, so why not hit BWoS for the bill? (BWoS are eager to shake the collecting tin when we ask for more early on in a project, before the design is finalised but after the spec has been agreed and the contract awarded. )
The best line in the article has to be " You wouldn't keep employing a plumber that constantly floods your bathroom"!! Well, we have little option as our plumber used government money to buy up the other plumbers' businesses. Now there is only one plumber in the land!!
RANT!
Any spelling mistakes are rapid, rant typing induced!