[Gllug] Open Source lobbying meeting - UKUUG London Thurs 19th

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 14 Oct, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> 

> 
> That's very unusual.  You'll probably find that the contract wasn't 
> effectively publicised so that the "regular supplier" wasn't aware of the job 
> until it was too late!
> 
> Chris
> 
   We used to have a separate commisioning department. The person who used
to write specs had just been made redundant, and the replacement did not
realise it was possible.
   Another cock-up caused by a mix of English and Metric dimensions resulted
in a building with a first floor office level that you had to crawl into,
and vehicle maintenance pits larger than the huge commercial vehicles that
were supposed to straddle them. Putting that right cost almost as much as
the complete new building.

-- 
Chris Bell

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