MoD puts £5bn worth of construction work on hold

摘要

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has placed its £5bn construction and facilities management programme under review and has said no contracts will be let this year as initially planned. A spokesperson for the MoD's real estate arm the Defence Infrastructure Organisation [DIO] told Building the procurement programme for a suite of contracts worth £500-600m each year and around £5bn over 10 years was now "under review" with no contracts to be let in 2012 as originally scheduled.