Seaborne Freight - highly reputable third parties in vetting process
Dear Department for Transport,
Following the announcement of the contract awarded to Seaborne Freight a department spokesman is quoted in the Guardian as saying:
“Before any contract was signed, due diligence on Seaborne Freight was carried out both by senior officials at the Department for Transport, and highly reputable independent third-party organisations with significant experience and expertise into Seaborne’s financial, technical and legal underpinning.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Please advise:
Which highly reputable third party organisations were consulted?
When they were consulted?
How much the consultancy costed?
Please also provide:
Any reports or analysis provided to the department by those third parties.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Kirtley
Dear Steve,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information which
has been allocated reference number P0016889.
A response will be issued to you in due course.
Regards,
Department for Transport
FOI Advice Team
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Dear Steve,
Please see attached a response to your Freedom of Information request
received on 3 January 2019.
Kind regards,
Isabella
[1]cid:image001.png@01D46C45.259B1250 Isabella Craig
Maritime Directorate
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33 Horseferry Road,
London, SW1P 4DR
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G Webber left an annotation ()
I was literally about to post the same request. Thank you!