The documents that reveal the battle of the Beeb

摘要

A candid email exchange between two key decision-makers on the BBC Broadcasting House scheme reveals the extent of the bitterness felt over the choice of Bovis as the project's construction manager. This is one of seven documents, three of which are reproduced here, that cast fresh light on the year-long procurement process. The email correspondence (see below), between Chris Evans, the then BBC project director, and Michael Wood, director of the cost consultant Currie ft Brown, took place after Bovis had been selected for the scheme in November 2002. It highlights the anger felt by Terry Chapman, the managing director of Schal, at the decision itself and the fact that the BBC did not communicate its choice directly to the losing party until December 2002.