Thread by @JolyonMaugham

Here's Saiger LLC and some of the contracts it won. None of these nine notices are clearly the same contract but we think there are probably five contracts.

All are unlawfully late. Weird of Govt to spread publication of the notices over two sites. Weird it has not published any of the actual contracts. Weird that for four of them it didn't even publish what type of PPE it bought. 🤔

This next stuff is from the court papers Saiger filed in a court in Miami against a Mr Andersson.

So Saiger wins "a number of lucrative contracts with the government of the United Kingdom."

And Saiger needs Mr Andersson's help sourcing PPE (so much for Saiger's vaunted experience in China!). And for the first two contracts Saiger pays Andersson more than $28m.

Then Saiger gets three new contracts with the UK Government and wants more help from Andersson.

And they negotiate and Saiger agrees to pay more than $21m more for help with Andersson's gloves and gowns contract (we bought 10.2m gowns).

So that's about $50m in total for Mr Andersson "for services performed". But remember those 10.2m gowns. I'll come back to them later this evening - for now I have to go deliver a seminar to Cambridge University Law students.

Now where was I.

So the gowns contract on tenders electronic daily is for $83.33m which we think is the same contract as the £70.52m contract on contract finder (see pics attached to first tweet).

That suggests we paid Mr Saiger a unit price for gowns of £6.91 - rather more than the £4.60 average Govt's leaked benchmarking doc shows we paid everyone else.

10.2m times the difference equals a cool £23,650,000 profit for Mr Saiger - less, of course, Mr Andersson's $16m cut.

But it just keeps getting odder and odder. Why was Government buying 10.2m gowns in June?

Here's the Government's data on the number of gowns distributed to the NHS during the pandemic (assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…).

And what it shows is that between 25 February 2020 and 4 June (the contract date) 3.08 million gowns were distributed by the DHSC to the NHS in England. And between 4 June and 8 November 2020 only 7.58 million gowns were distributed by the DHSC to the NHS in England.

Between 25 Feb and 8 Nov, therefore, a total of 10.7 million gowns were distributed to the NHS in England.

So why were we buying 10.2m gowns in June from a single supplier - a jeweller in Florida - without any competition - and at an apparent overvalue?

Anyway. If you'd like to help us get to the bottom of it all you can do so here. crowdjustice.com/case/the-jewel…