Annularity used to be the elephant in the room. Save, save, save, surplus, spend.
Contractorisation was supposed to get round this and the Regional Prime for works was a step in the right direction but as 5 years was too short. But even before year one in our region was out came the cuts. Paintng was cut, demolition was cut and so on. They had a good contract but there we were meddling with it.
Landmarc OTOH had a long contract and a complacent approach. thought they were the bees knees and too complacrent to realise their customer hated them
The next big money saving scheme by the Queen's first son-in-law is one
BIG overarching contract in 2013. But big contracts need lots of monitors at every level but had Defence Estates trained any Contract Monitors?