#public-procurement

#public-procurement

Companies that have recently donated to Labour were awarded contracts worth almost 138m during the party's first year in government, according to new research that raises fresh concerns about the relationship between political donations and public spending. A report by the thinktank Autonomy Institute has identified more than 100 companies that have given money to political parties and then won government contracts, under both Conservative and Labour administrations.

Starmer was equally effusive, gushing: This deal shows that our plan for change is working bringing in investment, driving growth, and putting more money in people's pockets. Four months later, and the tech company was left scrambling to fix a devastating global outage on Monday that left thousands of businesses in limbo and shed light on the UK government's reliance on its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

"The evidence that the defendants acted dishonestly over the course of the procurement process is overwhelming," Superior Court Justice Peter Bawden said in his ruling. The judge said insider information that Georgiou provided to Aquino via secret emails was "confidential, highly material and obviously intended to assist Bondfield to win the procurement. That conduct would be recognized as objectively dishonest in any circumstances, but when seen in the context of a strictly regulated public procurement, it is unmistakable."