mo4ch:>After Carillion crumbles, MoD awards ‘high risk’ Capita multi-million outsourcing deal | Mo4ch News
The UK’s biggest trade union has condemned the award of a multi-million pound MoD contract to outsourcing provider Capita – just days after a financial report deemed the company as “high risk.”
Criticizing the move, Unite said the government had learned nothing from the collapse of fellow outsourcing giant Carillion earlier this year, calling the recent award to Capita “wrong-headed and alarming.”
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“There is absolutely no business case for these essential and highly-dedicated workers to have their jobs outsourced and privatised. The government remains addicted to the failed model of privatising and outsourcing,” said Unite’s national officer for the MoD Jim Kennedy.The criticism comes following the release of an internal assessment carried out by financial analytics specialists Company Watch, first reported in the Financial Times. It ranked Capita’s risk score as 10/10, with 10 indicating the highest possible level of financial distress.A separate health-score put the fi…
Criticizing the move, Unite said the government had learned nothing from the collapse of fellow outsourcing giant Carillion earlier this year, calling the recent award to Capita “wrong-headed and alarming.”
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“There is absolutely no business case for these essential and highly-dedicated workers to have their jobs outsourced and privatised. The government remains addicted to the failed model of privatising and outsourcing,” said Unite’s national officer for the MoD Jim Kennedy.The criticism comes following the release of an internal assessment carried out by financial analytics specialists Company Watch, first reported in the Financial Times. It ranked Capita’s risk score as 10/10, with 10 indicating the highest possible level of financial distress.A separate health-score put the fi…