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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
The PFI fiasco just shows what happens when you let naive civil servants negociate contracts with private companies. We need some hard nosed individuals, probably with good private sector credentials, to be employed by the government to oversee and approve major contracts.
Private firms would be accountable if the contracts are correctly formulated: Along the lines of "If you screw up or fleece us, then you're out, pronto"
At the moment too many contracts are essentially for life with no comeback.
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This would all cost a lot of money employing those sorts of people i have seen "consultants" such as these would be in use plenty of times at vast cost ,we had some in our department around about a year ago in the NHS.
Would they save lots of money the juries out on that one they would certainly cost it,but i would say a lot of specialists in that line of work may have links to companies awarded contracts anyway or certainly know directors of said cmpanies ,just as many top directors sit on each ohers renumeration commitees handing out contracts for the boys.
It may work but that is a gamble at least, and another thing he NHS is open for freedom of information as a public entity so info can be obtained, freedom of information ASAIK does not apply to private organisations,so the ability to get info could also be compromised in the process.