Alongside the changes to DE&S, we will continue with the reform of MOD’s wider acquisition system, which is focusing on up-skilling our customer capabilities, a key role for our military, alongside the important role they will continue to play within DE&S.
Mr Speaker, these changes will drive significant incremental improvements in DE&S as well as delivering the mechanisms that will give the organisation a robust performance baseline. That will allow MOD, at a future date, to re-test the market’s appetite for continuing the DE&S evolution into a GoCo, and its ability to deliver value for money against a significantly enhanced public sector comparator.
I'd like to think that the first part of the quote is an acknowledgement that 20+ years of dismantling the "intelligent customer" have finally been recognised - far too late to do anything about it. The whole thing is a re-invention of QinetiQ under a slightly different guise - fantastic in terms of smoke, mirrors and bullsh1t, but basically a profit-making organisation totally dependent on the expertise and support of military personnel. I was hugely uncomfortable with that whole episode, and this proposal just beggars belief!