In some of our findings, we found there were six contracts that seemed to be designed to suit McKinsey & Company, whether it was organizations waiting for them to have their own national master standing offer so that they could use them for benchmarking services when there were other existing standing offers with benchmarking services, or just changing their procurement strategy, as we talked about earlier on.
We saw that in six contracts, but what's more concerning to me is the frequent disregard for the rules. When we looked at a sample, in probably more than half, there was more than one rule that wasn't followed. It isn't that we just highlighted it when it was one rule.
This just points to both things working. There might sometimes be a tendency to look for a vendor, but there is clearly a tendency to not apply all of the rules, and we need to figure out why that is happening in the public service.