Palantir won £27m government contract without tender

Labour and Conservative ministers call for more scrutiny

Tom Allen
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Palantir won £27m government contract without tender

The UK government awarded US data firm Palantir a £27 million contract off the back of a personal introduction.

US data mining and analytics company Palantir won a contract with the UK government after a personal introduction from the former head of MI6, according to openDemocracy. Sir John Sawers, who le...

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