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  I speak from personal experience from the 'client side' of a contracting out process.
  
  Considerable savings can be achieved alongside better services provided that the contract is properly drawn and the correct levels of contract supervision with appropriate contract penalties are included for failing to meet specification. When it was re tendered it worked very well, so well in fact that there were letters to the paper congratulating DDC on the way the streets looked. So the result a significantly reduced cost and better service. the same kind of thing happened with the loo cleaning contract and, from memory the first one ended early with a much better second contract. The first sports centre contract likewise - we made a substantial capital injection into the centre and asked tenderers to also make proposals to put capital into the centre. The winner chose to improve the bar facilities and the overall result, taking into account the capital spent, was a big improvement in the centre at a much, much lower running cost.
  
  So you can parrot your left wing sources Mark, Howard etc but I know first hand about this subject and whatever you claim, done properly it works brilliantly.

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