The lower requirements are due mainly to the fact that all major projects for the establishment, renovation and upgrading of military, police and civilian sites, roads, seaport jetties, helicopter landing sites and airfields will be completed in 2005/06, leading to reduced provisions for construction, alteration and renovation services and the acquisition of equipment, such as prefabricated facilities, generators, fuel tanks and pumps.

The decrease reflected lower ration costs; the absence of a provision for the deployment of contingent-owned equipment, owing to the projected completion of deployment in 2005/06; and reduced requirements under facilities and infrastructure, due to the projected completion of all major projects for the establishment, renovation and upgrading of accommodation facilities, seaport jetties and landing fields in 2005/06.