Originally Posted by
Wee Weasley Welshman
Why does adding a gun cost 200 000 000?
Are bean counters so used to thinking in terms of 10^6 or ^9 or even ^12
that pennies never even enter in to it?
At the sharp end there it the accounting for every penny on subsistence etc - at what cost - and at the other does the company account to the MOD for its contract T&S?
Years ago now but during the Stingray procurement a Neddy arrived at the testing range without his briefcase. This was absolutely essential to the conduct of the trial. The briefcase was found, driven to Boscombe, flown in a Canberra to Kinloss and driven to the test range.
By the time the briefcase reached the range the trial was complete and the neddy had gone back to Boscombe.
Where did the cost of that little exercise fall? It should have fallen on someone's personal bank account.