Re: Reducing time and cost
The RN tried that ~200 years ago, its caled "Pressganging" and seemingly why the RN is also referred to as "The Andrew" after a particularly zealous press ganging officer.
Also the catering has been outsourced to.,.......Sodexho (well was in 2010 - renowned for office catering and motorway cafe's), quite how they got a contract for silver service catering is a mystery.....oh wait VT Flagship (aka VosperThorneycroft) now part of Babcock got a juicy contract to run various establishment facilities (catering, grounds maintenance, MT Pool etc etc etc) and not long after the high ups who authorised the contract retired from military service and rumour is they appeared on the Board of VT Flagship.
VT Flagship subcontracted most of the work elsewhere and lucratively skimmed 10% off the top of what those contractors billed the RN
Biting the hand that feeds IT
