Hi JC,
Isn't that the modern way ? I paid more attention to the phrase "this will be a long, long term contract." There are some very interesting assumptions behind that statement, most of which I really don't like. For example, a friend of mine just finished bidding on a contract to do provincial reconstruction in an African country - full infrastructure upgrades, training, economic development, etc. - and that contract is only going to last for 3 years.
They already exist JC. Increasingly we are seeing government agencies refusing to develop internal capacity. By way of a parallel, they are operating in exactly the same way the Byzantine bureaucrats did after the death of Basil II - I just hope that there policies don't have a similar effect (think Manzikert, 1071).
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