Obscuring green procurement
Thursday, 18 August 2022 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bens_dadSorry, this is not the simplest of stories.
https://goodlawproject.org/news/e2bn-70-billion-worth-of-answers/?utm_source=NB&utm_campaign=E2BN-net-zero-180822&utm_medium=email
Basically East of England Broadband Network have made a "framework agreement" to supply up to £70billion worth of "Services, Products, Solutions, and Support for the public sector transition to Net Zero" to the entire UK public services with a company that is so small (a "micro company") that it is exempt from submitting accounts to company house.
This "framework agreement" is supposed to make it easier for public services (Schools, NHS, Local Authorities etc.) to comply with UK, EU and World Trade Organisation regulations on transparency of procurement, yet there is no evidence that any other company was asked to bid for this contract and hints that there may be shared interests between e2bn and the winning company.
GoodLaw have asked the court to judicially review the awarding of this contract, having first given e2bn extra time to explain the fatcs of the case.
https://goodlawproject.org/news/e2bn-70-billion-worth-of-answers/?utm_source=NB&utm_campaign=E2BN-net-zero-180822&utm_medium=email
Basically East of England Broadband Network have made a "framework agreement" to supply up to £70billion worth of "Services, Products, Solutions, and Support for the public sector transition to Net Zero" to the entire UK public services with a company that is so small (a "micro company") that it is exempt from submitting accounts to company house.
This "framework agreement" is supposed to make it easier for public services (Schools, NHS, Local Authorities etc.) to comply with UK, EU and World Trade Organisation regulations on transparency of procurement, yet there is no evidence that any other company was asked to bid for this contract and hints that there may be shared interests between e2bn and the winning company.
GoodLaw have asked the court to judicially review the awarding of this contract, having first given e2bn extra time to explain the fatcs of the case.
