Yes, that is definitely a challenge. The higher the number of stakeholders, the more complex are the relationships. That's true also in any prime-led relationship. You still have all these stakeholders working with the prime, and you have no visibility of them. At least in the other part, in the network model, all the partners are visible. You know what all the partners are actually doing, what they bring to the table, versus the prime-led model, where you really have no idea. You have no visibility. You have no line of sight to this stuff, so the risks are much higher than in that “one throat to choke”, if you want to put it that way. There's a lot of risk of associated with that, and I don't really recommend that in a complex procurement.
On February 1st, 2018. See this statement in context.