Unpeeling the Fluff - Layer by Layer - Part 7
The investigation of 9/4000+ government contracts - storage and distribution in this case
In Failed Covid Contracts, we provided examples of contracts awarded to various bodies by sundry governmental agencies during the madness of 2020-21.
Failed Covid Contracts
On June 2, the UK’s HM Treasury published, to little media attention, a report revealing the multibillion-pound price British taxpayers paid for the reckless handling of Covid contracts.
This inquiry is about this contract:
And you can find our request here.
We are trying to hold the DHSC accountable for their actions and the money spent on these contracts - in this case, £15,101,392.
The “More Information” section at the bottom of the announcement consists of 26 documents.
We were nervous about reading all of them, so we started with those that had potentially interesting titles, such as Call-Off Schedule 13 - Implementation Plan and Testing v2.0_Redacted. Wow, we thought, let’s take a look at the implementation plan - bring it on!
Here it is:
Got it?
A brief visual scan of the other files reveals several forms, templates and schedules with redactions whenever sums of money are cited. But thankfully, “excluding VAT” is not redacted.
Unlike other contracts, this one specifies the object: antigen later flow tests.
This post was written by two dogged old geezers who would like to know why all the contracts aren’t being investigated, as a practical alternative to political hand-wringing.
Hi you ol geezers are remarkably restrained…. I personally would like to see some political neck ringing and I would be first in the queue to begin dispensing that free of charge. There is nothing commercially sensitive in this offer.
the last recluse of the morally bankrupt: pages of black ink; all redacted