When the MOD add in 'commercial' specialists they are not people who have delivered effective procurement programs, they are 'people like us' in other words civil servants or military personnel with inadequate training and no experience - unsurprisingly the budget is the first victim and delivery the second.
A work colleague for a short period worked in Aerospace industry (yup its deliberately wide) and came across a Purchasing / Logistical issue.
Inherited a services issue where told can't be made better blah blah blah................. red rag to bull issue and with half the staff and 99% availability of key spares a year later he asked them if he had made them believers