Late change in procurement to reflect change in operational requirements

  Heavy Equipment Transporter project: The requirement was changed from 120 to 92 vehicles at an advanced stage in the procurement. This reduction resulted from a change in army structures and an associated reduction in the number of vehicles that the Heavy Equipment Transporter fleet would need to transport at any one time. The project team could not have been expected to foresee this change as the information was not made available to them until a late stage in the procurement process. Late changes of this magnitude could affect the bid process, although in this case the procurement was completed successfully.