Call for more lawyers

Project Aurora, the latest BBC attempt to impose its will on the external world of technology, is coming up to its second birthday - and may be soon be closer to spending money on purchases, rather than itself.

The existing "one-stop shop" BBC-wide technology contract with Atos has had to be extended, to 2017, as the BBC seeks to purchase new Towers of Technology under SIAM ("an in-house Service Integration and Management function). The latest example of the project's belt-and-braces approach is the hiring of two "Technology Paralegals" to work supporting "3-4 lawyers" as the project finally goes to the shops over the next two years. Speedy, huh ?  What on earth do the BBC's central Procurement team, judged capable of managing an annual spend of around £1bn, make of this additional gigantism ?

And, after the DMI fiasco, who is the responsible executive ?

• Wikipedia tells me that in astronomy, there are two sorts of aurora - one diffuse, a sort of featureless glow, and the other discrete and sharply-defined. Mmm.