| Comment | The cancellation of the current contract happened a while ago (it should have run longer but there was a break clause the govt could use to end it early if performance was poor and, surprise! Performance was poor) and the intention at that point was to put it out to tender as usual. Then the pandemic happened and they temporarily nationalised it just to keep it from failing. And now they're not putting it out to tender. I think it'd be a lot of work to set up an actual public sector body for a temporary takeover, so I'd be surprised if it went back to being privatised any time soon (if at all). |
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