City Council broke their own Contract rules 555 times

A report by experts brought in to review how Liverpool City Council runs contracts found a catalogue of failings that wasted £Millions.

After inspecting over £550 Million worth of contracts, it was found that up to £50 Million may have been lost.

In a shocking 555 cases, the council failed to follow their own procurement rules. They include £Millions worth of construction contracts where the council failed to get more than one company to bid for the work.

Wavertee Garden Suburb campaigner Rob Verity. said, “This is a shocking record of failure by Labour. Many of these failures are due to incompetence and weak  management, and have ignored rules designed to prevent corruption or waste.”