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Jun 12Liked by Pontifex Minimus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This insistence in designing prototypes instead of buying off-the-peg solutions runs through UK government procurement. As you say, that's where most of the "waste" (and corruption, IMO) originates.

I've only come to realise this due to the debate on the ferries, but it's clearly a systemic problem.

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