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摘要

This is about regime change. At the beginning of April, after a prolonged gestation deep in the corridors of Whitehall, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation was born. And we're only just beginning to fathom its mission - nothing less than the biggest overhaul of defence strategy in a generation. The MoD's new property arm replaces Defence Estates, and its mission is to cut costs, overhaul procurement, and - should you believe the rhetoric - shred bid costs for contractors along the way (see pages 22-25). Defence Estates first began to drive efficiency savings through its £100m cost saving programme that scrutinised facilities contracts, but the scale of the operation needed not just a change of gear, but a change of vehicle. Hence the construction industry's new best friend, the DIO.