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 [...]
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Farewell to the Metrix Consortium
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 27th 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:
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6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 20th 2010
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Military Academy on Shaky Ground
The Guardian newspaper also report that they have learned that the PFI project that was proposed to finance a military training academy in Wales is likely to be scrapped:
The Guardian has also learned that a £14bn PFI project – one of the largest ever – to finance a military training academy in Wales is likely [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 6th 2010
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Costly PFI Project Might Now be Axed
Today’s edition of the Shropshire Star reports that plans to move defence training to South Wales could now be axed. Union officials have welcomed the news that these costly, controversial plans may not go ahead and the new hope this gives to RAF Cosford’s chances of survival as a military base:
A Government source has [...]
9 Comments CherryPie on Sep 29th 2010
The Government has recently ended its £750m border security contract with a Raytheon-led consortium and said it had no confidence in the U.S. company.
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£755m UK border contract scrapped
By Lorraine Turner
Friday, 23 July 2010
The Government ended its £750m border security contract with a consortium led by Raytheon yesterday, saying it had no confidence in the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 26th 2010
