24 The Agency have a seven-year contract with Radio Spectrum International and can increase it to ten years, providing them with long-term stability in the provision of IT services. The Agency had intended to second staff to work in Radio Spectrum International so that they would retain a sufficient skills base to allow them to resume the provision of services in-house at the end of the contract or at termination if performance proved inadequate. But the Agency have been unable to retain or recruit IT staff to fill the posts open to their staff in Radio Spectrum International and are considering ways to improve the recruitment and retention of IT staff.