The delay increased the price but with the increase in annual charge being less than 10 per cent

2.31  During the preferred bidder negotiations deal drift was controlled. Bywest's annual price increased from £8.6 million to £9.3 million, an increase of 8.4 per cent (see Figure 8). The Trust's financial advisers, KPMG, together with James Nisbet and Partners, the quantity surveyors, monitored the increases and were satisfied that the final unitary payment still represented value for money and confirmed this in writing.