News agency Reuters has today announced that the U.S.
engineering firm CH2M Hill had withdrawn from the bidding process to run
Britain's weapons buying agency as it was not commercially viable.
The firm was leading one of two consortiums bidding
to run Britain's Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) unit, in a team with
Serco and Atkins.
"After much detailed scrutiny, our solution
which would have met the objectives of the GOCO tender was not as commercially
viable for the consortium as we would have required, under the proposed draft
contract," the firm said in a statement.
The other bid team was led by Bechtel, another U.S.
engineering firm, supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers and PA Consulting.
Our union is now calling on the Secretary of State
for Defence to abandon this failed competition and to recognise that UK defence
procurement needs to remain in house, delivered by committed, motivated and
well rewarded civil servants.
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