Re: The problem often is...
As a victim of this, I can explain: the council will not approve replacement of life expired boilers with newer models, because it could lead to the engineers being corruptly induced to replace boilers unnecessarily.
In other words, the public sector is totally committed to the idea that the whole concept of a public sector is unmanageable (except at union meetings).
You never hear anyone on the streets saying "Save our NHS by stopping the appalling waste and mismanagement".
And it is not normally the public sector that says "OK, I will buy IF YOU HAVE A SECOND SOURCE" and then buying from multiple sources in inverse proportion to their prices (used to be standard practice in industry for high volume procurement).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
