The Home Office has been ordered to pay out more than £223m to a US defence company after it was found to have unlawfully ended a contract to provide a troubled border control scheme.

A tribunal awarded Raytheon Systems Limited £49.98m in damages after it found the way in which the now-disbanded UK Border Agency had decided to scrap the agreement over the controversial e-borders programme was flawed.

The department must also pay Raytheon £9.6m for disputed contract change notices, £126m for assets acquired through the contract between 2007 and 2010 and £38m in interest.

E-borders, devised by the Labour government in 2003, was designed to count everyone in and out of the UK by collecting advance passenger information on all scheduled inbound and outbound journeys to and from the UK.

news.sky.com/story/1320799/home-office-t...or-scrapped-contract

In The Know (as always) wrote:
The Home Office has been ordered to pay out more than £223m to a US defence company after it was found to have unlawfully ended a contract to provide a troubled border control scheme.

A tribunal awarded Raytheon Systems Limited £49.98m in damages after it found the way in which the now-disbanded UK Border Agency had decided to scrap the agreement over the controversial e-borders programme was flawed.

The department must also pay Raytheon £9.6m for disputed contract change notices, £126m for assets acquired through the contract between 2007 and 2010 and £38m in interest.

E-borders, devised by the Labour government in 2003, was designed to count everyone in and out of the UK by collecting advance passenger information on all scheduled inbound and outbound journeys to and from the UK.

news.sky.com/story/1320799/home-office-t...or-scrapped-contract

Almost the same amount IDS wasted on a job website.