Multinational consulting firm Bain & Co celebrated when Tom Moyane succeeded in pushing SARS Chief Operating Officer Barry Hore out in December 2014. It was an event Vittorio Massone’s team at Bain & Co seems to have planned and hoped for. Without key figures in SARS – such as Hore – holding the line, Bain created the perception with Moyane that its services were desperately needed. The consulting firm’s collusion with new SARS management culminated in a R187-million tender to fix a revenue service that was not broken.