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 …
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?
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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!
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