So the first thing to understand is that value for money is only one of the check boxes in a procurement and the biggest one by far is accountability (which iro

So the first thing to understand is that value for money is only one of the check boxes in a procurement and the biggest one by far is accountability (which ironically just kills value for money even though I presume the accountability is to prevent money disappearing) Secondly you can not do agile things or indeed anything other than mainstream IT projects under the current procurement rules. I've tried (from both sides) So reform will have to come from the top down. The good news is that this government does seem interested in root and branch reform so keep pushing. However it is going to require dramatic new thinking in an organisation (the civil service) that is fundamentally built to resist such a thing as part of its very foundations.