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Originally Posted by Taf
When I worked as a Home Office Radio Tech, stores were centralised for most items, but for some items each depot had the power to locally purchase. The variation in cost through this method was huge, but the system continued to the end (bought lock, stock, barrel and remaining personnel by NTL... then closed down).
Civil Service Inertia, and "the way we've always done it" were the root cause of this idiocy.
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well kudos to DC for at least having a go at sorting it out .I think there will be some suppliers a tad upset though when there contracts are renegotiated