{"id":2245,"date":"2013-07-05T13:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2013-07-06T08:14:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:14:05","slug":"crapita-loses-contract-in-double-quick-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Crapita loses contract in double-quick time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transportxtra.com\/magazines\/parking_review\/news\/?ID=34996\">Transport Extra reports<\/a> that our friends at Capita (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2181\" title=\"Capita interpreter dispensed with in trial\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>) have lost a contract with a term of 5 years, an option on a further 2 years and worth &pound;100 mn. just eighteen months into the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The contract was with the <acronym title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/acronym> and concerned vehicle excise duty enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The contract has now been awarded to rival outsourcing outfit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsl.co.uk\/\">NSL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well done Crapita. How much longer before you lose the courts interpreting contract with the Ministry of Justice? Let&#8217;s face it, you&#8217;ve been under-performing on that one ever since you took over the under-performing ALS (<em>subsequently rebranded as Capita Translation &amp; Interpreting. Ed.<\/em>)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Extra reports that our friends at Capita (posts passim) have lost a contract with a term of 5 years, an option on a further 2 years and worth &pound;100 mn. just eighteen months into the contract. The contract was with the DVLA and concerned vehicle excise duty enforcement. The contract has now been awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[31,22,20],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-crapita","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}