SEVENOAKS – The Good Law Project, a not-for-profit membership organisation using the law to protect the interests of the public, is suing the UK Government over its decision to grant an £108 million contract for the supply of facemasks and other items of PPE to Crisp Websites Limited.
Since the start of the pandemic, the organisation reports, the government signed over 100 contracts – worth in total nearly £350 million – for the supply of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.
Of that total, around a third – £108 million – was tied up in one contract with one company, Crisp Websites Limited (trading as Pestfix). The number of bidders who competed for that contract was one and the purchase order for the money was issued on 10 April 2020, three days before the contract was concluded. At the time the purchase order was issued, Crisp Websites Limited’s last reported net assets were £18,047.
