Fast forward 2 years - major efficiencies in purchase power, savings, streamlining
Let me tell you about one base i know particularly well.
Before NPAS - between jobs, the unit personel would clean the place, mow the lawns, change light bulbs, decorate, carry out minor D.I.Y., cut the hedges, change the windsock, clean the smoke detector heads, sort out their IT, service the runway lights, etc etc.
Post NPAS takeover - NPAS H.R. and health & safety audit teams turn up and put an immediate stop to all the above activites. In their words, "have you been trained to change lightbulbs? No, well stop doing it."
NPAS then sign service contracts for all the above tasks with specialist companies at a cost of £thousands. There is even a bloke who drives down from the Wakefield area 4 times a year to clean the shower head !!!!!!
In reality, "Fast forward 2 years -" NPAS look at the before and after operating costs for this particular base, see that they spiralled and close the place down. Genius!