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Old 23-03-2018, 15:23   #10
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Passports

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Originally Posted by hilleluk View Post
If that's the case, they must have known they were giving the contract to a French country. Amber Rudd signed this one off, she must be as thick as mince if she thinks this decision is going to be popular
If the bids were anonymised as it is alleged, then she could not have known.
I a. Sure that she knows this will be an unpopular decision.
The only way that this could have been avoided was to make sure there were no foreign candidates tendering bids for the job...but I somehow think that contravenes EU rules.


This does not mean that the decision cannot be reversed, but they chose the cheapest tender that fulfilled the criteria.
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