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Committee member Mark Francois said: “The performance of certain sub-contractors is well-known both within industry and the defence community"
The UK Ministry of Defence has been urged to review its outsourcing practice amid allegations that some contractors have dropped standards to boost profits.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee said that Government activity is not being evaluated ‘robustly or at all’.
Ministers want to use post-Brexit freedoms to overhaul the bidding process for public contracts so small businesses can compete against giant companies that know how to “game” the system. A Government source said: “We’re moving away from 350 different European regulations that govern procurement down to one British one, and we’re making the system as