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Delivering a critical, £100m+ programme turnaround to avoid contract termination, retain jobs and deliver business growth
Day 1 People’s reputation secured as a steadfast business partner after client success in nUAS SPIRAL 5 bid
A year into a technically demanding, complex programme delivery, a Defence Prime was facing a formal letter of intent of contract termination from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). Unless issues were resolved and turnaround was achieved within a 3-month period, the termination decision had been cited based on lateness, and the lack of confidence in future delivery.
The loss of the £100m+ contract would have had a significant financial impact, not only on future revenue of the Prime, but also on the cost spent to date. Jobs would have almost certainly been lost, and the reputational damage would have made it difficult to secure future work in the parts of the MOD.
A major UK Defence Prime required rapid delivery of bid/capture for several tasks for Spiral Development Taskings under DE&S Future Capability Group (FCG, now Future Capability Innovation) nUAS Spirals and the DE&S FCG Human Machine Teaming (HMT) Framework, valued at £300m.
