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| Author: | roythebus [ Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Outrage over council tendering |
My county council are about to be in deep poo. We tendered for one of our existing school contracts after it was terminated 2 years early due to "a review of local taxi contracts". We'd done the job faultlessly for over 2 years at a good price (for us), so presumed the council wanted to try to save money. We were on about £56 a day for a 21 mile run am & pm (now down to 18 miles twice a day). We tendered cheaper, assuming local boy would go at their usual 50p a mile rate. We never got the job. We found a firm in Folkestone (18 miles from the first pick up)got the job. o we done an FoI enquiry. 3 firms tendered for the job, the dearest £86, middle price (the successful bidder) £59, us £36.50!! WTF, as KCC are wasting over £7k of taxpayers money on this job; they do not take into account environmental matters when awarding tenders; they clearly take no notice of the council leader's rhetoric that he will promote and help businesses on the Romney Marsh! Wait for this to hit the press!! |
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