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Rolling Stock Procurement in the UK – the National Audit Office gives its verdict

29 July 2014

The United Kingdom's Department for Transport (DfT) has recently led something of a rail revolution, taking direct control of the procurement for approximately three-quarters of the new trains forecast to be required in the UK until 2020.  Following the completion of the Thameslink and Intercity Express (IEP) projects, the National Audit Office (NAO) ran the rule over this process, with a number of findings that may affect the rail sector in the UK.

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