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It is an utter disgrace that Locog/ODA did not open up the tendering process for legal work for the Olympics. The decision to restrict the selection process to a small group of 15 firms when there is a budget of 40 million pounds of taxpayers' money up for grabs is yet another example of the 'old boys network' at play. Can we safely assume small firms, including most minority – owned practices were excluded from the process? The irony is that the legal department, having been given the responsibility to set up detailed procedures for the procurement of goods and services, did not see fit to apply the same standards for the purchase of legal services. Clearly Miller, de Waal and his predecessor Celia Carlisle, do not share the Olympic values of supply diversity and inclusion.

11-Jun-2012

2:41 pm