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Farewell to the Metrix Consortium
The latest issue of Private Eye bids a fond farewell to the Metrix consortium:
So. Farewell then to the Metrix consortium and the crazily expensive plan to privatise defence training at a new academy in South Wales under a PFI contract which rose from £11bn to £14bn and was plagued by delays.
Defence secretary [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 27th 2010
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Civil Servants and the Spending Review
Although I blogged about the good news of the cancellation of the DTR procurement and Metrix’s appointment as Preferred Bidder I couldn’t quite face posting the rest of the dire news that was announced in the spending review. The news has an immediate and far reaching effect on all public sector workers, the people they [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 25th 2010
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Weight Loss – Week 12
Slowly but steady… I lost 0.5lb today I am looking forward to the secret that will be revealed to me soon, it will give me a new boost!
17 Comments CherryPie on Oct 21st 2010
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Defence Training Review Collapses
Yesterday my colleagues at Cosford learned that they had a won a long campaign to stop the privatisation of Defence Training.
In a ministerial announcement it was revealed that it had become necessary to terminate the DTR procurement and Metrix’s appointment as Preferred Bidder because an affordable solution was not forthcoming within the time frame required:
DTR [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 20th 2010
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Weight Loss – Week 11
Despite all my weight loss challenges (two meals out and a christening buffet) I managed to lose 0.5lb this week. The scales did do one of those flickering moments between one weight and the other before they finally settled in my favour
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 14th 2010
