Tories hand out a £1 million NHS contract to an American company, no tendering.

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Seems good value if the initial contract was let for just £1.00.
Also seems bizarre to bleat about fears that vaccines would not being shared with other countries, and then bleat when probably equally crucial data is...

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Sorry but the Tories cannot be trusted:-

https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/palantir-nhs-datastore-contract-extension


Revealed: Palantir secures £1m contract extension for NHS data store work
15TH JULY 2020
Peter Thiel's controversial data analytics firm Palantir has secured a £1 million contract extension for its work on NHS England's Covid-19 data store, NS Tech can reveal.

Palantir's initial contract to provide engineering services for the data store, which assesses and predicts demand on the health service, was worth £1 and came to an end on 11 June. But NHS England confirmed on Wednesday (15 July) that the contract, which did not go to competitive tender, has been extended for four months.