Chamber and committees

I would like to explore the original contract. GEOAmey was the sole bidder; is that unusual in these circumstances? Were there other providers in the market that chose not to bid?

Did they withdraw?

Were they eliminated as part of the sifting process?

The contract started in January 2019, so you had a year or so before Covid impacted to bed it in. How did that first year go?

Do you have one other contract, south of the border?

Presumably, when the contract was being drawn up, you took all that into account.

As we have just mentioned the £77,350 figure, I will focus on that to begin with. That money was for the chief operating officer attending a training course at Harvard Business School in Boston. How robust was the business case that was prepared for that, and what options were considered? I am not asking any particular person; the appropriate person can just respond.

Okay. Is it not a bit unusual for a public body to give staff members Christmas vouchers?

Do we have any examples of payments being made by the commission that have resulted in personal tax implications?

I would have been able to get my specs for free had I worked for the Water Industry Commission during that period. Up to what value would I have been reimbursed?