Originally Posted by Chilli Monster
The same facilities which they've been providing for many years, which can't be provided by anyone else - hardly "won" was it.
Won is precisely correct. This contract went through the full MoD purchasing process and took some 5 plus years before it was awarded. Many other options had been looked at including MoD building its own Area Control Centre and having radar piped in.
NATS was most certainly not a sure fire winner.
BD