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Old 8th Feb 2011, 19:54
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I can think of a few in AbbeyWood who will not want reminding of the contractor whose Programme Manager was given his own workstation during contract negotiations, including password access to all MoD's internal commercial and financial discussions and e-mails. He flaunted it daily and took the royal p***.

(I almost called them a "bidder", but they didn't bid for the programme; they just bought the company who won).

We were told to wind it in when we voiced concern. I couldn't put a price on what this supine appeasement cost us. Forty or fifty million maybe. Only time in my career I've been formally asked by (another) company if my boss was taking a backhander.
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