Thursday 14 December 2017

Money For Old Rope Nags!

One of my readers noticed this listed on the official Government contracts site.
The Recovery of Stray, Loose and Abandoned Horses (from the highway) Kent Police and Essex Police
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent Contract award notice - two contracts have been awarded following a 2-Lot procurement exercise.
Lot 1 - Kent Lot 2 - Essex
Location East of England, South East
Value £1350000
Date notice published 28/11/17
Closing date 01/09/17
Notice status Awarded
Notice type Opportunity
That's a pretty nice little earner. Now, if they could only stop them from simply getting more horses once the ones removed are all in Tesco lasagne...

H/T: David Abell via email

4 comments:

Andy said...

Blimey! No wonder we're in the deep stuff if that's what they're paying.

Sobers said...

Far be it from me to cast aspersions, but one wonders if this could be a nice little earner for our travelling friends? Set up a legit company to bid for the work, then as they have a limitless supply of mistreated horses, let them out at regular intervals, resulting in much work for the company set up to collect them, and dispose of them for free. £££ all round!!!

Pcar said...

@Sobers

What I thought too. £1.35 Million pounds of taxpayers money donated to pikeys, sickening.

btw Pikeys tarmacked and moved onto a field in Essex near Dale Farm on Saturday (DM)

JuliaM said...

"Blimey! No wonder we're in the deep stuff if that's what they're paying."

So much for 'the terrible Tory cuts', eh?

"...one wonders if this could be a nice little earner for our travelling friends?"

I'm sure we can trust the councils to have thought of this.

Can't we?