Government urged to publish reviews
28 August 2012
A major parliamentary and industry pressure group is set to recommend that Gateway reviews, the government’s main progress reports for major public-sector contracts, should be published.
In a damning inquiry report last week, Lord Fraser criticised senior civil servants, saying “delays, poor management and lack of leadership” drove the price tag for Holyrood to £431 million, ten times the initial 1997 estimate, and opened three years late.
A major contributory factor to this failure was the use of “construction management”, a project procurement...