STH
I don't know the figures, but I was at dinner recently with a chap who sold the likes of SLAM to the MoD. The plans they offered originally were the same they had sold across the country to Universities, the NHS etc for their accommodation needs, which on the whole are similar to our SLA and there are several standards to choose from.
He said that the MoD refused them all and opted for a "bespoke" version, to the point where some rooms were only a foot or so bigger in any dimension. To this, his company rubbed their collective hands together and charged somewhere between 50 and 100% more.
How accurate these figures are, one can only guess, but if you want a wardrobe, an off-the-shelf, flat-pack one from MFI will cost you £110, but a bespoke version just a little bigger to your own specs made by a chippy will cost you in the region of £500-700.
The MoD paying over the odds for little or no extra tangible benefit? Not in my lifetime
