Beware of a tender trap
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• Waste disposal hauliers could lose out on local authority contracts because the Government has removed its requirement for compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) while shaking up the 335 local authorities in England and Wales before 1998.
Waste operator Onyx ditnisses the suspension of CCT as a "fly in the ointment". Marketing and development director John Basford says the councils will not be restructured all at once, so the measures will just change the company's tendering timetable.
But civil service unions warn that councils opposed to CCT will take advantage of the suspension for as long as possible.
E The first day of the first privately tendered Prison Service transport contract ended in farce
on Monday (5 March) one prisoner escaped and others were delivered to court hours late.