GBZ, OK.
On contracts, I was involved in writing a re-bid contract. It was a classic in how not to do it.
We started with the old and updated it. We removed bits that we didn't like (unnecessary) and added bits that we highly desirable.
We met and the desirable bits were chopped out. Our individual work was merged and we departed to mull over the ashes.
We met again at a different location but a new bundle of T&S. We took our edited work only to find that the CO had re-written our original submissions that now bore no relation to the revisions we had wrought.
We left, we edited, we met again and it was all bl**dy different once again.
She just could not avoid tinkering. Our carefully crafted and specified criteria that would spell satis/unsatis had been removed and an anodyne requirement with no specific substituted.
The sitting contractor failed to win as they were unable to keep up with the changes. Personnally I think they were lucky and I got out too.
PS, none of us was asked if we had shares etc in Qinetiq or Serco!