ABSTRACT

Report on CCF; proliferation of Government backed bodies – CRISP, M4I, etc.; discussions in CIB, particularly CIB board meeting July 1999; Raynsford as president of CIB; development of proposals for CCC; CIB ‘Millennium Conference’ 2000; growing Government preoccupation with delivery of infrastructure improvements; Secretary of State’s invitation to client body to produce a client’s charter; launch of CCC and clients’ charter; NAO report on Egan, M4I etc.; new CIB Chairman Chris Vickers; first ideas about review of CIB; ‘spoiling’ tactics of CCC and disastrous long-term effects on CIB, collapse of CIB and CCC; departure of Egan.