Originally Posted by
The Helpful Stacker
On top of this is the fact that the people controlling the standing routine contracts are not (well don't seem to be) professionals in this role, with the result that quite often contracts for essential items are allowed to end with no new contract being placed. Desert boots before Telic 1 being one that springs to mind, the contract ran out and the manufacturing company went bust before anyone realised that boots weren't arriving at Bicester.
Crap contract writers in the MoD? Who'd have thought it?
18 more chinnies would be good, but where would they put them and who would fly them?