Contracts

KCC Commercial Services company start £2.2 billion of contracts before they were awarded

April 28, 2023 // 4 Comments

Kent County Council Commercial Services Group is a company you’ve probably never heard of. It is one of the largest, local authority owned, trading organisations of its [...]

£61m of contracts across eight Kent councils started before they were awarded

April 26, 2023 // 1 Comment

An analysis of eight out of twelve Kent Council’s shows that £61,317,807 worth of contracts were started before they were awarded, according to publicly available [...]

Incompetence: Power without accountablity

February 8, 2023 // 1 Comment

Purchase Orders (POs) are either the prevention of all evil, or the creation of all evil in local government, and elsewhere. At Folkestone & Hythe District Council, they [...]

Princes Parade: A hat trick of contract irregularities

January 23, 2023 // 8 Comments

One has to hand it to Folkestone & Hythe District Council. They have single handedly awarded three contracts to companies who were working on Princes Parade, six months [...]

Part 42: Even more Financial Irregularities

January 20, 2023 // 6 Comments

There are many residents who have expressed concern about Folkestone & Hythe District Council, spending the successful £20m Levelling Up Fund money they were awarded on [...]

Council whistleblower vindicated over contract irregularities

September 7, 2022 // 3 Comments

In a guest post back in June 2022, a Council Officer whistleblower claimed there was a lack of governance and internal controls within Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

A vanishing contract and more data manipulation by Folkestone & Hythe District Council

September 3, 2022 // 3 Comments

Vanish is something you use on clothes. It is not something you expect to be used on the Council’s contract register. But that is precisely what has happened How do you [...]

Are the Council utterly incompetent, or are they now acting criminally?

September 1, 2022 // 5 Comments

Are a bunch of criminals running the council? Or are they just so incompetent that it looks like criminal behaviour? After all it was a senior Kent Police Officer who [...]

Data matching shows £7.2m of likely council procurement fraud over four years to family or friends

July 9, 2022 // 4 Comments

Recently while the sun was shining, and the birds were singing – well not on Princes Parade – Folkestone & Hythe District Council took the decision to suspend [...]

Alastair Clifford suspended from Folkestone & Hythe District Council

June 27, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated 28.06.22 @19:00 Breaking News: Alastair Clifford (pictured), Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Chief Officer for operations, has been suspended today [...]

£658,771 of contract irregularities on just three contracts

June 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

‘Fraud‘ says The local government transparency code 2015 (the Code), ‘can thrive where decisions are not open to scrutiny and details of spending, contracts [...]

Council publicly admit two investigations into contractual and financial irregularities

June 8, 2022 // 8 Comments

Updated 09.06.22 @09:28am Charlotte Spendley (pictured), Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s s151 Officer (the council officer with statutory responsibility for [...]

Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council?

May 28, 2022 // 4 Comments

Each year the Chairman of Folkestone & Hythe District Council Audit & Governance Committee (A&GC), must respond to the external auditors letter which asks: [...]

Whistleblower claims allegations of “serious and sustained fraud within the council”

May 25, 2022 // 7 Comments

Updated: 25.05.22 @ 15:12 A whistleblower’s allegation of corruption and cronyism inside Folkestone & Hythe District Council are so serious they claim only a [...]

More bent council contracts? You decide.

May 15, 2022 // 3 Comments

Is it incompetence, fraud, stupidity or something else? How can contracts begin before they are even awarded? The answer of course is they can’t, as this would be a [...]

Princes Parade Update: Costs, Contracts & Vindictive Behaviour by FHDC

November 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

On the 6 August 2018, Lesley Whybrow (pictured), before she became an elected Cllr, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Council, relating to Princes Parade, where [...]

More contractual woes at the Council

June 14, 2021 // 1 Comment

The stupidity of alleged professionals who receive generous salaries and work for Folkestone & Hythe District Council, never ceases to amaze us. Once again these alleged [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes

August 9, 2020 // 9 Comments

£6.2 million pounds worth of contracts in 2019/20 were issued by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, using waivers and citing urgency and expediency. In total, 49 [...]

C**k up, Conspiracy or Incompetence?

July 5, 2020 // 4 Comments

So is it a cock up, conspiracy or incompetence? We simply do not know, but we’ll let you judge from the evidence we put before you. All the evidence is in the public [...]

The Long Read: Princes Parade & Dubious Contracts. You Decide.

March 26, 2017 // 5 Comments

It has been reported to the Shepwayvox Team from both internal and external sources that Shepway District Council’s policy and procedures as laid down in their contract [...]

Do they or Don’t they?

August 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

I paid SDC for their contracts register when the books were open. This is what they gave me. It is exactly the same as you can find in a previous blog entitled SDC Contracts [...]

SDC Contracts Register

August 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Like all council’s Shepway District Council has a Contracts register, so that they do not lose track of them. The Contracts Register currently shows that SDC has 141 [...]

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