• MOD participation in contractor implementation procedures should be clearly defined and limited.
• MOD's Statement of Requirements should be written in objective output terms. Subjective requirements may be negotiable but it is likely that the preferred bidder will seek for these to be benchmarked and subsequently objectively tested.
• The attraction of including subjective requirements should be weighed up against the fact that the contractor will no doubt require a level of risk to be transferred back to MOD.