Believe me friend, today’s offering does not represent journalistic laziness. It is deliberate repetition of a recent issue and its treatment. Merely because it has intrigued me as much as it is being, slowly but surely, catapulted onto our collective national consciousness. As it should be. After all the issue involves billions of our contributed dollars. Directly – or via loans. Of course the recent National Budget debates did motivate.
So what am I going on about? Again? (And appreciate my simple man-in-the street treatment please).
It’s about contracts! Those multi-million – sometimes billions – agreements between a contractor and an entity – government, quasi-government or private sector employer, – to execute some project or undertaking within an agreed-upon time frame, utilising the contractual fee to produce a finished work to a required standard.