13 The Home Office Gateway 3 Review held in December 2003 concluded that the project had made considerable progress and that procurement had been satisfactorily conducted but it classified the status of the project as Red13 because the case for accommodation centres had not been developed into a fully articulated programme and the business case needed updating with the latest cost estimates and benefit assumptions. The Review also recommended a trial plan for the accommodation centre programme, outlining the contribution accommodation centres were to make to the end-to-end asylum process.
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13 The OGC Gateway Review methodology defines Red status as "To achieve success the project should take remedial action immediately". This does not mean stop necessarily; it indicates that there are issues which need to be addressed straightaway.