there's some irony in the fact that bernie came in to tell everyone how to do procurement better - and his big procurement, feted as a grand competition, seems to have turned into a single source fiasco.
if a PM in abbey wood had got this far in a competition before realising there was no effective competition, you'd be asking questions about serious failures earlier in the procurement cycle, and counting the impact in terms of wasted effort and delay in providing a capability.