2.22 The procurement team did not prepare a detailed fallback plan in the event that the PPP procurement foundered. The Agency decided to take the associated risk for two reasons. The first was confidence that a deal with one of the bidders was likely even though the team knew that LINK was uncompetitive and knew there was a risk of upward price adjustments by GeneSYS in the later stages of the competition.
2.23 The second reason was that, if the PPP procurement collapsed, the Agency took the view that it could have continued with its then current arrangements until the technological solution behind the public sector comparator could be procured conventionally.