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Instances of the vendors’ bids being kept in prolonged suspended animation or the Requests for Proposal (RfP) being retracted several years after these are issued, only to be re-issued and, in some cases, to be re-retracted, abound. By Amit Cowshish The inability of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find a quick way out of logjams in procurement programmes has caused more damage to the military’s modernisation drive and the country’s prestige than the combined effect of Byzantine procedures, bureaucratic lethargy, financial constraints, and occasional allegations of corruption. - [US' China strategy in partnership with its friends, allies: White House]...
