Recommendation 4

Clarify roles and create a real customer-supplier relationship between the capability sponsor (MoD centre) and project delivery (DE&S)

a)  DCDS(Capability) to be responsible for the creation and control of requirements, and required to control the budget of the agreed EP as a single point of MoD contact with DE&S for equipment.

b)  Clear ownership of each project/requirement to be allocated to a single individual within DCDS(Capability) team, including business case formulation.

c)  DE&S to be responsible for programme management and delivery against agreed requirements specification and budget.

d)  Changes to requirements, programme delays, etc. to be specifically and realistically costed and included in the next iteration of the plan. If any increases threaten affordability (as is likely) cuts must be made elsewhere.

e)  Cost of DE&S resources on projects should be tracked and charged.