it was now clear that the items the government had paid over £100 million for weren t the actual gowns the nhs had needed after all. government thought it was buying, arm, a rolls royce, erm, but it was getting a ford fiesta. jolyon maugham, a london based lawyer and founder of a legal campaign group, has taken the government to court over this and other covid contracts. we can t know whether civil servants in a tearing hurry, erm, ordered the wrong thing what we can know is the thing supplied for £108 million of public money was not a thing that was the right thing for the covid pandemic. if you don t get the specification right, then the rest of the procurement process doesn t, doesn t matter. you ve wasted, you ve wasted the money, and it s hard
the government had paid over £100 million for weren t the actual gowns the nhs had needed after all. government thought it was buying, arm, a rolls royce, erm, but it was getting a ford fiesta. jolyon maugham, a london based lawyer and founder of a legal campaign group, has taken the government to court over this and other covid contracts. we can t know whether civil servants, in a tearing hurry, erm, ordered the wrong thing. what we can know is that the thing supplied for £108 million of public money was not a thing that was the right thing for the covid pandemic. if you don t get the specification right, then the rest of the procurement process doesn t, doesn t matter. you ve wasted,