[2] By January 2008, however, the Government had decided that the Metrix Consortium was not able to offer an affordable and acceptable Package 2 solution and, therefore, alternative approaches would be considered.
Metrix's bid included the provision of a new Defence Technical College (DTC) at St Athan.
[3] The development was to be complementary to the Welsh Assembly Government's aspirations to create an Aerospace Centre of Excellence at St Athan.
The construction programme for the college was scheduled to commence in the autumn of 2010 and would cost an estimated £700m and create 1,500 jobs.
However, the project was cancelled in October 2010 and the college was eventually built at MoD Lyneham, Wiltshire.