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To give them their dues - it says they’ve nearly fulfilled the contract too supplying 67million pieces of equipment!
That’s not how government contracts are supposed to work - surely they should be going back for more money having found the initial costing was wrong or something!?
That’s not how government contracts are supposed to work - surely they should be going back for more money having found the initial costing was wrong or something!?
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Rich has already spoken. Unless you can *prove* a link to Dominic Raab's actual mum, it's all *completely fine*, nothing to see here.Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:22 pm The £108m contract for supply of PPE, granted without competitive tender to a 16-employee pest control company in Littlehampton with £18k of assets, has made the news today:
https://www.ft.com/content/43bb10de-645 ... 3978ec445d
https://goodlawproject.org/news/over-100-contracts/
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You are correct in that this one also doesn’t fit your little wanky sensationalist list!Nefarious wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:11 pmRich has already spoken. Unless you can *prove* a link to Dominic Raab's actual mum, it's all *completely fine*, nothing to see here.Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:22 pm The £108m contract for supply of PPE, granted without competitive tender to a 16-employee pest control company in Littlehampton with £18k of assets, has made the news today:
https://www.ft.com/content/43bb10de-645 ... 3978ec445d
https://goodlawproject.org/news/over-100-contracts/
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Sorry, awarding a contract for protective equipment for hospitals worth £108m to a tiny pest control company doesn't ring alarm bells? FFS, Rich
Fortunately, it rang enough bells with enough people that it's being challenged in court. The lockdown was absolutely not a cronies' charter for mates of the government to milk nepotistic opportunities without scrutiny.
Fortunately, it rang enough bells with enough people that it's being challenged in court. The lockdown was absolutely not a cronies' charter for mates of the government to milk nepotistic opportunities without scrutiny.
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The "wanky sensationalist list" of contracts awarded without tender - what you asked for .Rich B wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:16 pmYou are correct in that this one also doesn’t fit your little wanky sensationalist list!Nefarious wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:11 pmRich has already spoken. Unless you can *prove* a link to Dominic Raab's actual mum, it's all *completely fine*, nothing to see here.Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:22 pm The £108m contract for supply of PPE, granted without competitive tender to a 16-employee pest control company in Littlehampton with £18k of assets, has made the news today:
https://www.ft.com/content/43bb10de-645 ... 3978ec445d
https://goodlawproject.org/news/over-100-contracts/
Not in the mood for your petty shite today. We can wait for the PAC report on this one.
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Massive alarm bells. It’s clearly wrong.
Unfortunately Nef is conveniently forgetting what he originally posted and now trying to twist it to make it seem like I have claimed any of the cases are ok.
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I’ll correct you again if you like? You still don’t seem to remember what you actually said!Nefarious wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:21 pmThe "wanky sensationalist list" of contracts awarded without tender - what you asked for .
Not in the mood for your petty shite today. We can wait for the PAC report on this one.
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just to remind you. You seem to keep on forgetting one of the points in your statement!Rich B wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:20 pmJust scroll up - you’re not even quoting yourself correctly!Nefarious wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 10:55 pmYoure chasing a misunderstanding - you asked me for a list of contracts awarded without tender, which is what I gave.Rich B wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:59 pm You keep changing what you think you said - it’s this:
“Why are the government awarding multi-million contracts without tender to companies their own members are shareholders in?”
so theres 3 points to it:
Why are the government awarding:
- multi-million contracts
- without tender
- to companies their own members are shareholders in?
Which ones fit this? Randox has a consultant that is an MP?
Re. The original statement, see the above concession to the words "high value"
“No, I stated in my original post that I have an issue with the widespread practice of dishing out high value contracts to companies with close connections to government without proper tender, of which this is a prime example.
This does seem a slightly strange, nit-picky point (and one largely irrelevant to the issue of awarding a high-value, privicy invading contract to close associates of the current cabinet) to make a stand over.”
I specifically asked for contracts awarded in that way, meaning your examples should be all of these:
- multi-million pound contracts (Faculty )
- non-tendered (Faculty )
- awarded to government members Interest companies (Faculty )
You then posted a big long impressive list of Other contracts that also don’t fit this Description either (though I invited criticism of one of them if you wanted).
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The article Nef linked to referred to contracts to Faculty worth at least £1.6m. That's more than a million, so multi-million is right.Rich B wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:24 pmI’ll correct you again if you like? You still don’t seem to remember what you actually said!
Good of you to miss the entire point he made so spectacularly anyway
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Yes, 9 separate contracts worth £1.6m, and the article said the latest one of these contracts (£400k) being awarded without tender (so should we assume the others were awarded following a tender?)Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:51 pmThe article Nef linked to referred to contracts to Faculty worth at least £1.6m. That's more than a million, so multi-million is right.
Good of you to miss the entire point he made so spectacularly anyway
”Multimillion pound contracts being awarded to companies with government board members” is not the same as ”one £400k contract was awarded to a company with a government member on the board.”
Of course, neither are acceptable without some scrutiny.
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Did they meet the targets given to them ?
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With your skills demonstrated in the shed thread I have thought you'd hack a tree down and go into clog manufacture.
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I’m pressing ahead with my nurburgring trip next week but obviously I have to go through France to get to Germany. I’m staying the first night with a friend in Brussels. What do you think the chances are of French border control in Folkestone telling me to fuck off if I don’t have somewhere firm to quarantine in once entering their country, considering I won’t even be getting out of the car, just passing through to Belgium?
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Passing through is fine isn’t it? You might need proof of destination though.
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Politicians acting in a self serving manner - it’s a non shocker really...
No matter what colour their coat, no matter how they go about doing it, they all do eventually...
No matter what colour their coat, no matter how they go about doing it, they all do eventually...
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Our clean slate stopped today. 24 days with 0 cases, now 2 from the UK allowed in to visit a family member who was dying. Contract tracing regime about to be tested to see if the country can still keep the virus out.
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Good old Government - this news item is just over a week old and the BBPA issued this yesterday because there has been no decision: https://beerandpub.com/2020/06/15/beer- ... overnment/Orange Cola wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 2:13 pm It’ll be interesting to see what the outcome of this is. Gov to discuss opening pubs on 22nd June instead of the 4th July to help prevent job losses in the sector, conversation happening on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52964669
I imagine the BBPA represents the smaller brewers and landlords rather than the big players, since they don't need an industry body to have lobbying power.
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Read about that this morning - the system seemed to work though - they were quarantined, tested etc. they didn't get to see their father before he passed and only travelled to the funeral, alone in a private car - stayed with a single person who's now isolating etc