4.1 The Agency set out a number of critical success factors for the partnership:
■ the achievement of value for money;
■ a transfer of business risk to the private sector;
■ strategic influence over the venture while having ready and flexible access to a wide range of IT skills and assuring the long-term reliability and stability of the Agency's IT service base; and
■ the commercial exploitation of the Agency's radio spectrum expertise while avoiding cross subsidy between the IT services and international business.
4.2 In this part of the report we find that the Agency's partnership with CMG has been successful in meeting many of the key elements of these criteria.