2.62 In February 2000, MOD costed the various options open to it prior to closing the deal. These included: (i) aborting the deal and arranging a new conventionally procured deal at some future date or (ii) scaling down the project to one which would just involve essential building maintenance without a major redevelopment. MOD concluded that, compared with the alternatives, there were clear benefits from finalising the deal with Modus.