MPs call on G4S to forgo £57m fee after Olympics failure

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Last edited Fri Sep 21, 2012, 05:31 AM - Edit history (1)

G4S should forgo its £57m management fee after failing to supply the required number of Olympics security staff, a committee of MPs has said.

It should also compensate people who were accredited for Olympics work with the firm but not given any shifts, the Home Affairs Committee argued in a report on Olympics security.

The firm's Olympics contract was worth £237m, including the management fee.

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"The largest security company in the world, providing a contract to their biggest UK client, turned years of carefully-laid preparations into an 11th-hour fiasco," Labour MP Mr Vaz said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19659943

G4S should top blacklist of firms that have failed to deliver, say MPs.

The private security firm G4S should be the first name on a government blacklist of "high-risk" companies that have failed to deliver public services, a cross-party investigation into the Olympic security shambles has concluded.

The Commons home affairs committee says G4S should forgo its £57m management fee for the contract that it still insists on claiming and has a "moral duty" to pay those people whom it trained but failed to use as venue security guards.

Keith Vaz, the committee chairman, said: "Far from being able to stage two games on two continents at the same time, as they recklessly boasted, G4S could not even stage one. The largest security company in the world, providing a contract to their biggest UK client, turned years of carefully laid preparations into an 11th-hour fiasco."

He said the government should learn from the experience and establish a register of "high-risk" companies that had failed in the delivery of public services.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/g4s-blacklist-firms-failed-deliver-mps

[non sociopath skin]

1. I bet the "Government" stumps up, though!

Afraid! Frightened! Frit!

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

2. I agree but it won't happen

'Personal responsibility', 'accountability', not demanding 'something for nothing', payment by results - these are all in great favour with this government so long as they involve ordinary, powerless people, especially those working in the public sector. Big firms are another matter!

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3. I am usually cynical about these "blacklist" stories

but I do happen to have some inside dope on this subject. I know the names of three companies who have essentially been debarred from bidding for future government work. Two of them are IT companies and the third is G4S. Of course, a similar ban was put in place on Anderson Consulting by the Major government only to be lifted when Tony Blair became PM.