How accountable is Serco ?

How accountablwe will serco and raytheon be to the british people? Read the interesting piece below. And you mcouldn't make it up - serco bid to run GP practice!!

One More Level of OversightBy Al DeVito(Al DeVito) The Department of Defense, in its superior wisdom, has contracted with Serco, a British-American company, to perform DOD’s oversight function of contractors in Iraq . Serco is responsible for "analyzing performance contractors' costs," ...

One More Level of Oversight
The problem is that it’s another fox guarding the fox who is guarding the chicken coop. The Department of Defense, in its superior wisdom, has contracted with Serco, a British-American company, to perform DOD’s oversight function of contractors in Iraq. Serco is responsible for "analyzing performance contractors' costs," "working with the Army to measure contractor performance" and "recommending process improvements."
How this will affect GAO’s auditing is a question, as everything between the government and the contractors (Fluor, KBR and DynCorp) goes between Serco and the GAO. When GAO decides to audit one of the contractors, Serco gets the documents from the contractor, summarizes them and then gives them to the GAO. The GAO has previously said that such a situation creates the “potential for conflicts of interest". I’m sure that Serco will be a good overseer of our money.

Outsourcing Oversight
Summary: The Department of Defense now employs contractors to keep ... the Pentagon split its largest military contract in Iraq ... A fourth company, the British-American service provider Serco, is ... oversight," Rasor told Truthout.

Sturgeon To End Privatisation Of Gp Practices (from Sunday Herald)
Jack McConnell's administration was criticised in 2006 after it emerged that Serco, a global services firm, was bidding to run a GP practice in Harthill, ...