As the 2012 National Audit Office report pointed out, the contract illustrates the naivety of attempting to pass too much risk to the private sector, particularly if it is unquantifiable.
To many critics, these above-market contracts illustrated the inefficiency of regulated utilities, which were largely able to recoup those costs by charging their captive customers -- a luxury that unregulated producers do not have).
The impact of the contracts illustrated in these vignettes was shaped by the original objectives of the contracts and the expectations and ability of external providers and client organisations to meet those objectives (which may have been overoptimistic).
These contracts illustrate how individuals and households handle surrounding socio spatial structures differently depending on their perceptions and manifestations of gender relationships.
The identification of different contracts among the respondents indicates both re-enactment of and opposition to stereotypical gender structures in society; moreover, these contracts illustrate the individual's manoeuvring room within the frames of organizing structures.
The potential value of the highway cleaning contracts was illustrated last month when a reporter for The New York Times accompanied Lt. Col. Robert Wright to a lunch with tribal leaders.
Whiteley, who is preparing to represent England in the Honk Kong Sixes competition next month, said: "With a championship winner's medal and an international call-up, followed quickly by a new contract that illustrates the club's faith in me, it's fair to say I'm a very happy cricketer.
But the contract has instead illustrated how the federal government, like New Jersey and some other states, has faced considerable difficulties regulating these places, even as it entrusts more and more inmates to them.
City Council members and Mr. Hevesi, whose office still has not approved the $174,000 New York Works contract, said the episode illustrated the need for a thorough and independent review of city contracts.
His speech may have seemed awkward for a campaign rally, yet this barely educated son of a mujahedeen commander illustrated the contract between candidates and their constituencies, particularly in the rural areas, and unwittingly revealed what kind of Parliament and provincial councils Afghans will usher in.
