{"id":6592,"date":"2011-07-31T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2011-07-31T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T12:40:56","slug":"tso-wins-dsa-publishing-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6592","title":{"rendered":"TSO &#8220;Wins&#8221; DSA Publishing Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how this is &#8220;news&#8221;. The back of my copy of the Highway Code and other DSA books clearly says it is published by TSO (The Stationery Office), and that&#8217;s where I buy my stuff from usually.<\/p>\n<p>So quite why anyone has seen it necessary to announce that <span style=\"color: #800000\">TSO has won the contract isn&#8217;t clear. I guess they mean they have <em>retained <\/em>it.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe, TSO had it &#8211; and the DSA was forced to go through a ridiculously expensive and time consuming tendering process to satisfy some lame-brained bureaucrat somewhere, just to confirm what was already the case.<\/p>\n<p>My money is on that second option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how this is &#8220;news&#8221;. The back of my copy of the Highway Code and other DSA books clearly says it is published by TSO (The Stationery Office), and that&#8217;s where I buy my stuff from usually. So quite why anyone has seen it necessary to announce that TSO has won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}