Transition to a Go-Co structure would not be trivial task, but benefits in terms of improvements in effectiveness that could be made and the accelerated rate at which these gains could be achieved represent a potential prize which is worth pursuing.
Discussions with other UK Go-Co's highlighted the need for the design of the Go-Co operating model and performance management regimes to be well defined before any attempt to contract-out is made. Much of this kind of detail depends on the steps implemented to address the problems that this Report has identified.
Detailed specification of the process would, therefore, need to be considered in due course and would require appropriate involvement from industry and other external stakeholders in addition to DE&S and the rest of the Department.
What follows is not meant to be a comprehensive or fully thought-out model or implementation path, but rather an overview of some of the most important considerations and the Review team's perspective on these.
These considerations include:
• Which activities in DE&S would be included in a Go-Co?
• Which activities would need to be re-organised between the Capability Sponsor, FLCs and the relevant parts of the DE&S organisation?
• What role would the contractor or external commercial partners be expected to provide?
• How does the new model work across the CADMID cycle?
• How does the new model evolve over time?
• What are the commercial implications for the Department and industry?