UK DE&S outsourcing transactions to DSG

24th June 2013 - 13:26 GMT | by Tim Fish in London

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The UK’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Armoured Vehicles Programme will outsource the contract management of repairs to the Defence Support Group (DSG) next month.

Speaking at the DVD 2013 exhibition on 19 June, Brig Gen Robert Talbot Rice, head of the Armoured Vehicles Programme, said that this was part of the efficiency drive that DE&S was working on with the British Army Headquarters.

‘We used to do a lot of contract management for repairs and frankly that is something that we are outsourcing. I am outsourcing that to Defence Support Group and the management of those contracts is being

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