"As regards the "certain assets and inventory balances", I suspect that the weak link will be the professionals in the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency, again. Stores System 3 and the Base Ordnance Depot Management System, for various reasons, do not seem quite up to the task. We will probably find that the Naval Base held stores on the Comprehensive RNSTS Inventory System Project and the integrated Warehouse Information Technology System have been signed off, again."
Certainly one of the weakest links, as the report highlights. Kinda figures that JPA would take a kicking, as would the issues with Bowman, but for the criticism of DSDA to be highlighted in the way it was must be galling for the service personnel who have to work alongside them both at Bicester and other locations. The problems are indeed deep rooted and systemic and show no real signs of being addressed with the likes of FLIS and MJDI being offered as the mythical baskets into which we should put all our eggs rather than ensuring that what we have got in the meantime is fit for purpose. The more things change....
I was rather hoping that when the LAIPT was shunted out of the way into the long grass that it belongs in, that the situation may improve and that the outsourcers looking after the likes of BODMS/WTMS, AMANDA, et al would be kept on a tighter leash - as the usual syndrome of the IPT getting too cosy with the supplier led, as ever to the end user's concerns being often ignored or over-ridden.... a problem oft observed at DSDA with a certain Teir1 telco/outsourcer.
However... not a chance of that with the current management in Building C16.
Regrettably, the comments about the shortcomings of DSDA come as no surprise.