The strategy adopted by G4S seems clear. Having secured a wide-ranging outsourcing framework with Lincolnshire Police Authority in April it is not resting on its laurels. G4S now appears to be working closely with other police services to see just how much scope can be squeezed out of that framework without the cost, time and resource commitment (not to mention uncertainty of outcome and scrutiny) of a fully fledged OJEU procedure.
No wonder the Commission doesn’t like the way we do framework agreements in the UK….
