We conducted interviews with the following key stakeholders, maintaining contact throughout the study where this was appropriate:
■ The Department, including members of the DERA Partnering Team and the Defence Procurement Agency (responsible for negotiating the LTPA)
■ QinetiQ, including the chief executive and chief financial office at the time of the privatisation and a representative selection of staff from across the organisation
■ The Carlyle Group
■ The Shareholder Executive
■ The Treasury
■ UBS Warburg
■ PricewaterhouseCoopers
■ Simmons & Simmons
■ Rothschild
We also contacted all those who submitted bids for a stake in QinetiQ in 2002 with a questionnaire and followed this up with interviews where relevant issues were raised.