Investigation reveals cost of council building project doubled without authorisation
Herefordshire Council has apologised unreservedly after a damning independent investigation found procurement procedures hadn't been followed on a build project which doubled in cost.
The Council was leading on the refurbishment of Blueschool House to create a customer services hub that was to be shared with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
The project was originally approved in June 2016, with a limit of £950,000 being set down. The cost had ballooned to £1.92m by the time the Council moved its central customer serv... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
