“Compulsory competitive tendering was introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s to force councils to outsource or privatise services. Everything was up for sale from NHS cleaning and catering, to road maintenance to refuse. The plan was based on cost and profit, not providing a service, making a profit means slashing the service and worsening workers’ terms and conditions.” The Socialist Worker
So, contract awarded, mission accomplished, winning the work had been a piece of cake and hacking off the entire work force a relatively straight forward process that usually took only a couple of hours at a work force meeting but now came the really tricky part when someone had to plan the work.
Have Bag, Will Travel 