This project is missing

Some projects cannot be found. They are the missing projects. Perhaps they never existed at all? It is a mystery. Their scope remains undefined. Their terms of reference incomplete. No-one was ever assigned. No-one will read their reports. They are unfulfilled.

This project is missing

Reasons why a project may be missing

  • It was never more than an abstract, notional objective, easily discarded.
  • Budget cuts before, after, or during, the procurement process ended any hopes of implementation.
  • Mission creep meant that it became impossible, too expensive, or incomprehensible.
  • Calls for proposals were issued at midnight with a dawn deadline with the intention of supporting a favoured contractor, who never applied.
  • Anyone who read the terms of reference and then the budget laughed, and then ignored it.
  • It was completely unimportant.
  • Events superceded it so rapidly that it was obsolete before it was ever started.

There are other projects with real objectives that delivered on their mandates. You can find them in our portfolio.

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