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And where is my 5% commision for setting this deal up?
MoD awards BT £810m contract extension
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has extended its contract with BT to provide fixed telecommunications services. The Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) contract between BT and the MoD was signed in 1997 and extended in 2005 to run until 2012. It will now continue until 2015 in an extension under existing provisions …
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cool news
British Ministry of Defence does deal with British Telecom with no johnny foreigner involvment at all. We can all sleep safely in our beds within the Empire.
Except maybe
...Huawei Routers and all their backdoors.
eh?
Wasn't BT fined/bollocked/something for rigging the stats for said contract a year or so ago?
Value for money?
Another example of BT having business to them handed on a plate.
As a tax payer, I would have expected a full tender to have taken place to allow other suppliers to bid for the business. This would have at least allowed some kind of market testing to take place?
How was this allowed to happen?
@ Value for Money
Actually the BT win was a three year extension of the existing contract that has been running for ten years. No retender was needed as the original contract had the option for the MoD to extend and taking this approach saved millions of pounds of consultancy fees. Just remember that everyone complains about the quality of service to the troops - but no-one has ever said anything bad about the telecoms!
Pocket MP
The followng page will explain why there was no tendering process http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/Ourcompany/Theboard/Non-executivedirectors/index.htm
Why else have an MP on your board?
It's all in the name
Some MoD type remembered BT and what the initials stood for.
British and telecommunications - sounds more advanced than cable and wireless.
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