Social enterprises ask for Olympic contract change

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 17 October 2007

Community transport organisations in London are lobbying Tessa Jowell, the minister for the Olympics, to make changes to a contract for the 2012 games that disqualifies more than 90 per cent of them from submitting tenders.

The Olympic Delivery Authority's bus services contract, which relates to the transport of staff between venues at the games, states that each organisation involved in any consortium bidding for the contract must have an annual turnover of at least £5m. Currently, only two of the capital's 22 community transport groups...

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