🧐 Looking at this Scott Base rebuild story: few blunt but real comments about NZ’s infrastructure sector.
Adam Feeley makes some blunt comments about NZ’s infrastructure sector, some uncomfortable truths about how we deliver public projects?
😶 “Poor performers circulate from project to project”
😶 Firms that are “bloody hopeless” somehow keep winning contracts
😶 A culture that won’t call out underperformance
The reset tells a story: Scott Base’s original plan was scrapped as “highly risky and unaffordable” so the entire internal team was disestablished and external contractors brought in.
📊 A mindset shift?
“this is what we want, find more money” to “this is your budget, work within it”
What’s really happening here? Feeley worked with 75% of his new team before his “proven performers.”
Meanwhile, he won’t name the “hopeless” firms for defamation reasons. But in my opinion this leaves them running around to harm other projects.
The public sector’s risk-averse nature and “painfully slow” decision-making creates opportunities for consultants to take advantage.
