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A paper considered by the SPA’s Strategy, Police and Performance Committee on 8 May 2019, confirms that: “Invitations to tender had been issued on the Public Contracts Scotland website with a deadline of 4 December 2017 and an award was subsequently made to Martek Drones Ltd on 26 February 2018".
Following its oral evidence session with witnesses from Polic...
Please advise whether any corrective action proposed, and if so, what action and when?
On 26 January 2021, the Scottish Government responded to the Committee as follows:
It is agreed that there is an error.
Analysis produced for SPS suggested that it was somewhere "between £8,000 and £10,000 per annum off the market rate for equivalent work."9Justice Committee. (2019, October 8). Official Report, col 26.
We felt, having discussed it with the board, that we needed to push on with that review. The recruitment process for a new chief executive will probably take six to nine months, and the new person would then have to get their feet fully under the desk.
No one has responded about what happens when somebody cuts down every second leylandii in order to get round the legislation. That is a case of somebody getting around the legislation.
My understanding is that some of the data is already collected, although it is quite hard to get. Indeed, we have been trying to get information for quite some time.
At the time, the president and the chief executive were relatively new. That meeting was held to bring them up to speed on ROS’s strategy for clearing the open casework and getting to the point of bringing in digital services.
Members who were here will recall that I appeared on screen at 18:35:26 to advise that my app had frozen my phone, and I raised a point of order to advise that I wished to vote no on the bill.