Originally Posted by
Skeleton
Value for money is one thing. I hope the beancounters will get the message this time round.
Sadly I fear not.
I fear you may be right. As covered in other threads, VFM appears to have gone out of the window in pursuit of staying within the (too low) defence budget.
All the progress made over the past 15 years to go for real VFM seems to have reverted to VFM=cheapest.
You get what you can afford, and pay for. However, that's not really the fault of DPA: it's a politcal problem of a government wanting a Jaguar for the price of a Mini and making everyone dance to that tune.