Cuddy Group swoops to bag cut-price hospital contract.
Re-awarding a lucrative hospital demolition contract has saved Stoke-on-Trent City Council £750,000, after the BBC exposed a flawed tendering process.
The council agreed in October 2009 to pay Brown & Mason £1.1m to demolish Westcliffe Hospital, a former Victorian workhouse. But it re-tendered the contract after a BBC investigation in November 2009 showed it had turned down cheaper bids.
The council said it had made serious mistakes in the past but the successful firms were not involved in wrongdoing. After re-running the tendering process, the council said it had now accepted a demolition bid from the Welsh-based firm Cuddy Group for about £340,000.
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