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The government identifies the preferred bidders to fulfil the tagging contract. http://www.supplymanagement.com/news/2013/capita-awarded-interim-electronic-tagging-contract Check out the bidders: Capita, Buddi, Astrium, Telefonica. So what does this mean? a large outsourcing firm, a niche specialist technology firm, an element of EADS making redundancies in its   satellite business and a giant Spanish telecoms firm. Which one will the government chose and what will be the ramifications for UK taxpayers and businesses? The fall out from the original findings of the tagging issue is now being played out. It should be hoped that for the credibility of the government and the for sake of the tax payers purse that the government was right....

The very topical issue of supplier performance is perhaps embodied by the current electronic tagging problems that have continued to gain prominence in the press this week. The Telegraph article offers a factual account of the recent admission and mentions contractual interpretation. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/supportservices/10459367/G4S-offers-to-hand-back-24.1m-after-wrongly-billing-for-tagging-contracts.html In this article it is shown that the Supplier, G4S, conducted an independent review on its activities; so it’s not as though they were looking to sweep the issue under the carpet. The following BBC article raises some extremely poignant questions about the capability of the Buyer – The Ministry of Justice and comes very quickly on the back of NAO report criticising government departments on their inability to set robust contracts that they understand. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25001800 When selecting the Supplier the Buyer will cert...