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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20694 by Cathy Jamieson on 28 November 2005, whether the Assess, Compare, Evaluation and Verify (ACE-V) process is fallible and what evidence it has to justify its reply.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2004
His response is as follows:A risk adjustment was made to the Public Sector Comparator to the extent that risk would be no longer borne by the public sector under the new contract.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 October 2003
To test for value for money, bids received are compared to a Public Sector Comparator (PSC) which represents an estimate of the whole life cost of procuring of the specified services by conventional means.
To ask the Scottish Executive why aggregate external finance for Glasgow in 2000-01 will be #830,045,000 compared to #830,547,000 in 1996-97 and what percentage reduction this represents in real terms.
That would create an opportunity to compare procedures. One authority may have a particularly unusual or innovative procedure, or an unhelpful procedure could be highlighted.
I fear that, under a regime such as Saddam Hussein's, Tommy, with his habit of breaking even our comparatively lenient laws, would not have lasted the course to reach the prominence that he enjoys today.