As the G4S and Serco examples show, officials seem to have given up on monitoring performance.
The MAP puts its faith in peer pressure, and monitoring performance with timetables and targets.
This is because CCGs have not been given the resources to manage contracts – monitoring performance, and enforcing the contract's terms.
For schools, there was no national curriculum, no parental choice, no systematic means of monitoring performance, no publication of examination results beyond what schools themselves chose to reveal.
The business secretary, Vince Cable, said: "We will be monitoring performance on fair access closely every year to ensure we see tangible progress in opening the doors of our universities to the most disadvantaged".
As David Walker, former director of public reporting at the Audit Commission, wrote recently: "Whitehall simply has not acquired the capacity to write contracts that stretch contractors, including third sector providers… Officials seem to have given up on monitoring performance".
It says the lives of children were endangered by a sort of "pass the parcel" in which health authorities, the RCS and the supra-regional group overseeing the 12 designated heart centres all thought the others were monitoring performance.
The principles are the same, but the focus will be on monitoring performance.
They can also be helpful in setting policy priorities and in benchmarking or monitoring performance.
Moreover, physical movement because of the wind or other parameters may degrade the monitoring performance.
We believe that cloud-assisted architecture can decisively contribute to event monitoring performance improvement.
