Monday, 18 August 2008

I took a rare day's holiday, but my attempts at relaxing were rather spoiled by the continued wait for HCC to award their LINks contract. I called HCC shortly after 9:00 am and was assured that the decision would be communicated today. At 4:59 pm I called again and was told that no final decision had been taken after all and there would be a delay of “24 to 48 hours”.

Interesting. But not encouraging: the most likely scenario I could imagine is that HCC are completing some form of negotiations with (or checks on) the selected provider. The Shaw Trust have been in the news rather a lot lately ...