Those civil servants involved in drawing up these contracts must be either utterly inept or criminal.
What about the Civil Servants who, when the
Tories introduced PFI and imposed it upon MoD, immediately spotted it for the waste it was and took the time to spend 5 minutes filling in the PFI Waiver form? I don't recall getting any support from non-Civil Servants.
The inept/criminal act was the orders from above to knowingly waste money.
It is an offence for anyone in MoD to refuse such a direct order to waste money, but not an offence to issue that order.
Now put yourself in the shoes of those who had to let the contracts. Damned if you do, and disciplined if you don't.