as the op no-one has yet answered the oversight/requirement setting question with a credible scenario. Does this mean it has not been defined yet? Is there no example available? Why is that? Surprising that no-one here seems to know what oversight will even look like (or is prepared to discuss it). If you don't understand this, how can you state the goco is a good idea?
i'm not sure that just saying 'all in abbeywood are incompetent' - in itself far from true - is a reason to abandon reasonable controls over taxpayers money, though tuc raises good points about the younger skills base.
you can almost hear the 2017 statement now - "the recent procurement cock up was due to difficulties in establishing correct controls with the new goco - which was of course needed to radically shake up procurement so it wasn't really an unmitigatable f***up from day 1 as some suggested, honest."
Last edited by JFZ90; 28th Apr 2013 at 08:04.