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Serco and Mitie Awarded New Testing Contracts That Could Last for 18 Months

by Michael Curzon
28 June 2021 7:27 PM

The Government is sticking to its line that lockdown will end on July 19th and that this unlocking of restrictions will be irreversible. But, once again, its actions point in the opposite direction. Most recently, Serco and Mitie have been handed new testing contracts – worth up to £687 million collectively – to support the Test and Trace system. The contracts will run for 12 months but could be extended by another six. Reuters has the story.

The [Test and Trace] scheme, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged would be world-beating when he launched it with a £22 billion budget in May 2020, has repeatedly missed targets…

Serco’s contract, which is worth up to £322 million, covers services such as site operations, cleaning and security at around 20% of test sites in England and Northern Ireland, down from the roughly 25% of sites covered by its previous deal.

Mitie’s deal, worth up to £365 million, covers the management of around 28% of testing sites across England, Scotland and Wales, up from about 23% of sites in its former contract.

The two agreements are focussed on testing only but form part of the Test and Trace scheme, which oversees testing of people who think they have Covid, and then tracing contacts of those who test positive to require them to isolate.

While Serco also holds contracts for contact tracing, Mitie only looks after testing sites.

Parliament’s spending watchdog said on Friday the scheme had improved but was still missing targets, and the results of millions of tests to find asymptomatic cases had not been reported.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Mass testingMitieTest and TraceTesting

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A Y M
A Y M
4 years ago

Look around the world and see what countries are taking turns trialing on their people and maybe LS editors will start to see that this isn’t about a virus, it’s about transitioning to a New World Order.
What do you think these guys are doing when they meet at Davos or at the G7 or in emergency advisory meetings with Gates?
How long will it take for “reasonable” skeptics to realize this is not going to end until everyone has been co opted into the jabbed and tagged system with IDs for total control.
Lockdowns will not end, they will get lifted and reimplemented until the populations are harassed into full compliance.
They aren’t even hiding it anymore.

https://youtu.be/9VFXhAzYPPA
and part 2
https://youtu.be/se19Dk5Q_Ko

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HarryBlack
HarryBlack
4 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

I agree. This video describes how Menticide can be used to induce a mass psychosis through waves of fear… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdzW-S8MwbI

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

Scandal of the suppressed case for ivermectin
By
Edmund Fordham
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/scandal-of-the-suppressed-case-for-ivermectin/

Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

I have thought for a while now that the on/off loosenings are all stage managed and revolving. Swedes got some leeway because they are already so woke and communitarians, Brits got the face mask exemption, Russians were allowed to party for a while before the screws were being turned twice as tight again and so on. The key is that there is always some place that looks better, to make people comply and have hope elsewhere.

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wesmonty
wesmonty
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

And what of Florida and similar anti-lockdown states over in America? Were they in on it too?

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chaos
chaos
4 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

but Savid is the grown up in the room. It will all be fixed soon. We will be free. From the dangerous virus. Vaccines will save us. The world economic forum great reset can’t be true because the BBC and Daily Mail hasn’t mentioned them. I can’t wait to get my vaccine.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago

Medico fascist industrial complex further consolidating its embedded position in the world

We’ve known for a long time that whatever happens on July 19th is irrelevant and mot and ending of anything

We’re in this for the long haul. Probably at least several generations before the extent of the folly and evil is recognised

Thinking this ends when you can get a drink standing up in the pub is naive

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

We’re in this for the long haul. Probably at least several generations before the extent of the folly and evil is recognised

.It won’t be generations, those running this scam are clearly very impatient. This is obvious from the manic rush to inject each and everyone with their experimental gene altering agents, which have little or nothing to do with fighting an infection, which if it exists is no worse than a fairly average seasonal flu. They are up to very big and it won’t take generations to see what they are really up to.

Last edited 4 years ago by Rowan
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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

They tried it with Swing Flu. Didn’t work. They are trying again with Corona. If this fails they will keep trying.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

It’s not seeing that’s the issue, now, I think it’s admitting you’ve been had, sunk cost fallacy, lazy thinking, the lack of exposure to alternative messages. Brainwashing works.

I think the people running the scam want it to go one forever and have been quite clever at adjusting the heat so the frogs don’t notice the boiling.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

(I think GATES owns Serco)

DOUBLE JABBED More Likely To DIE, MSM LIES
https://odysee.com/@hugotalks:8/DOUBLE-JABBED-More-Likely-To-DIE,-MSM-LIES-Hugo-Talks–lockdown:d

Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Anyone fancy one in Victoria Park, Portsmouth? I’ve been Billy no Mates there every Sunday at 10am!

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

Go to the A Stand In The Park website, and register your park. They will help to spread the word and get people connected. Don’t give up. Good luck. https://astandinthepark.org/south-east-england/

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isobar
isobar
4 years ago

It never was about a virus, it’s always been about control. Just wait for the Climate Change Lockdowns next. Decimation of the aviation industry already going to plan!

Last edited 4 years ago by isobar
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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

Private jets will keep flying, of course.

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tom171uk
tom171uk
4 years ago

They are desperate to do enough tests to get as many (asymptomatic) “cases” as possible. And to spend our money. There are a lot of vested interests to be served. Don’t expect the bullshit to stop any time soon.

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leicestersq
leicestersq
4 years ago

More confirmation if any was needed. This is all about depopulation.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  leicestersq

So sticking sticks up somebody’s nose causes depopulation?
Yeah, right.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago

This really isn’t news. The “freedoms” and releases to be granted to the serfs, helots and hoi-polloi have been vague at best. I for one did not suppose that being “allowed” to go to a pub of my choice and behave normally would also mean that the QR and snoopery would be gone.

I think you’ll find that, whatever else is “relaxed”, T&T will be imposed for ever and a day. The worry, of course, is its further expansion. This will happen for many reasons, chief among which will be blind compliance by the public, with the customary “if you’ve nothing to hide…..” crap excuse.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

I should add that tracking, tracing and testing are all essential ingredients of the same stinking stew. Removing any one renders the rest useless. Expect, therefore, to see enormous sums wasted on the tracking side, which is a concomitant of testing; or vice versa v

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

https://hack-and-trace.me/ experiment with the qr codes

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Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Very interesting. On another point, Serco were the company that handled the electronic prisoner tagging system, where they falsified records and generally made a balls-up of it whilst the management charged the Great British Taxpayer vast sums for this. They had an office in Norwich where the staff were paid peanuts, and which was closed when the brown stuff hit the fan and Serco were exposed. Serco were fined about £20m, which is a fraction of what they should have paid.

It hardly needs mentioning, but the CEO Rupert Soames is brother to the former Tory MP and ardent Europhile Nicholas Soames. The latter is the fellow whose lady friend likened Hancockian/Ugandan activities with him to having a wardrobe, with the key sticking out, fall upon her. All part of the nexus of cronies, pals, and the rest, so beloved of the Tories.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

There are a lot more non compliant than them, millions more in the UK alone.

Last edited 4 years ago by DanClarke
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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago

Sure. Lockdown has ended, cos it’s school summer holidays and we need a good news story after Matt Hanarse.
And then mid August – Ooops! A new variant. Sorry guys. Unless you all have top ups and vax the babies, we will all die again. Queue now to avoid home schooling this September. The US says it’s safe! Oh, OK, a tiny minority may die. It’s great the sacrifices you are making for the greater good. Keep lining up to be stabbed.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Bravo! Wonderfully put 👌

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

No change – confirmed …

Screenshot 2021-06-28 at 21-36-08 Gilbert Jackson on Twitter.png
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A Y M
A Y M
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Javid, we have the antidote to that vaccine, we can give you a permanent position in a nice cushy international organisation. You get to travel all over the world rubbing shoulders with the A list. All you need to do is signal you’re on board by saying those three little words….

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

Corruption by any other name

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

The usual suspects riding on the gravy train.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago

One of the reasons I used to look forward to visiting LockdownSceptics was that it cheered me up and gave some hope for the future.

No more. Article after article full of the same gllom and doom you find in the MSM.

I don’t want sugar coated news, but where have the activism and optimism gone?

Last edited 4 years ago by realarthurdent
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oliness
oliness
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

It’s sceptical of the need for lockdown. It’s not sceptical of the possibility that the government have ulterior motives for keeping restrictions longer than necessary.

That’s been fairly clear since last May. The initial wave of sickness in March/April was down enough by May. That would have been the right time to fully reopen and build herd immunity. But restrictions continued. By May this year the most vulnerable are vaccinated. Yet we are still in partial lockdown.

The MSM is doom-mongering about cases, supposedly going to yet again kill us all 2 weeks from now. That’s what we’re sceptical of, not that the government are enjoying their power.

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Personally I prefer realism. Indeed, right from the off, I have noted my suspicions that this will never end – often leading to down-ticks and criticism of my pessimism. Well, I literally hate to say it, but I told you so!

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago

I’m just going to carry on doing what I’ve always done – avoiding every aspect of trap and trace, testing, jabs, the lot…Don’t give any money to ANY business that insists on this crap. Seek out places that respect you as a human being not a biohazard. It’s non compliance not “science” that will shift the balance with all this crap.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

Why would anyone not having symptoms bother with being tested? And yet people are lining up. I’ve heard it is a very unpleasant experience.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

The test could very easily be a mouth swab / saliva test but the powers that be have chosen a – not without risk – very unpleasant, invasive test to be used – and people lap it up, turning up and accepting the foul tests, time and time again…

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Making it a humiliation was very much deliberate.
The invasive procedure is actually criminally reckless and medically pointless. Responsible ENT doctors have explained and commented on that.
ANY invasive test is also illegal when mandated.
It infringes upon your bodily autonomy, like a vaxx mandate does.
But people and courts don’t care about that anymore.
Our unalienable individual rights and that principle have been abolished.
We are all utilitarian slaves now.
Testing and mask mandates were introduced solely for that purpose, the acceptance of the infringement of our right, leading to the acceptance of their abolition and the extension of the heist to vaxx mandates, chipping, social credit, vaxx passports etc..

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago

Nick Hudson’s latest talk. “Covid and the Clash of Ideologies”. It’s brilliant, as usual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OMquZKpQbI

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

hELLO: Scandal of the suppressed case for ivermectin
By
Edmund Fordham
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/scandal-of-the-suppressed-case-for-ivermectin/

Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
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Puddleglum
Puddleglum
4 years ago

Of all the horrors of the past year and almost a half, this is the kind of news that fills me with total, sickening dread.

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Psalm 23 seems appropriate in these dark times.

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vlysander
vlysander
4 years ago

This will not end. We know this is not about a virus, it is the the beginning of total control and domination by the Globalist cults hell bent on implementing their plans.
God have mercy on us.

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mummyfunk
mummyfunk
4 years ago

this is the contract.. see page 5 where it says TOTAL MAXIMUM CONTRACT PERIOD (not to exceed 10 years): 13 April 2021 – 12 December 2021..dont like the sound of the 10 yr thing..is that showing the potential to extend it ??
05191667-723b-4b55-80fa-41abda6c889a

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago

Oh goodness that’s a surprise the Government telling us one thing and doing the opposite. Well blow me down with a feather. Lying toe rags.

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Newman20
Newman20
4 years ago

Yet more corruption.

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