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Quote Originally Posted by Jordi Culé View Post
It should be but along with other dubious contracts awarded for testing, appointments made to people with little expertise and piss poor achievement and management qualities I think most people are just blasé about incidents like this and sort of expect it from this current government.

It’s the most corrupt UK government in my lifetime and I’ll go as far to say as ever.

I think this is false news. I used to manage a lot of contracts in the good old days when I had to work for a living, so I looked up tenders on OJEC, the official journal, that lists pending tenders. I didn't search specifically for the Knowsley contract but there were over 500 UK tenders for clothing and PPE listed. So I believe the process of procurement is being done openly and on official EU lines
The key thing in your search is at what stage the details of the "tender" were published in the OJEU. In the case of the £122m contract awarded to PPP Medpro the first OJEU notification was after the contract was awarded.

It would appear that this was a direct award (ie no competitive tender) under negotiated procedure.

4) The Department for Health and Social Care (‘DHSC’) is satisfied the tests permitting use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication (Regulation 32(2)(c)) were met:

http://bidstats.uk/tenders/2020/W37/734724148

As you say there were hundreds of tenders for PPP in the OJEU from March. Many, from local councils and organisations such as the Scottish Government went through notification and tender procedures. This does not seem to be the case for the English Government Departments which were contracting first and putting notices of who they awarded it to in the OJEU later. Presumably to give some degree of cover in the event of legal challenge for their actions.

http://bidstats.uk/tenders/?q=ppe&ca...5-734724148-45

If you could point out the false news bits in the PPP Medpro story that would be really interesting.