Leader

摘要

Building has been writing about problems with the re-tendering of the government's £750m project management and full design team services framework for well over a year now. Last month RLB chief executive Lance Taylor branded the process a "shambles". This week Building reports the sad outcome - in terms of the legal papers filed in court (page 9). As we said last month, the Cabinet Office should now be asking tough questions of the public sector-owned independent provider, UK SBS, that ran the procurement. Though we must not pre-judge the case, it is not good enough to simply say, as the Cabinet Office did this week, that it is not considering re-running the procurement.