en English Strategic Partnership terminated by Bedfordshire County Council European Services Strategy Unit : Outsourcing/PPP Library : Contract and Privatisation Failures :Strategic Partnership terminated by Bedfordshire County Council The Strategic Service-delivery Partnership (SSP) between Bedfordshire County Council and HBS Business Services was terminated by the County Council in August 2005. Nearly 550 staff were transferred from HBS back to the County Council. The report ‘Strategic Partnership in Crisis’ prepared by the Centre for Bedfordshire UNISON, published in April 2005, is available in the section on Strategic Partnerships in this library. The council took over all HBS services, all the staff and assets involved in the delivery of those services. It paid HBS £6.75m to purchase assets such as IT, furniture and fittings and to acquire goodwill, contracts and services provided by HBS, including to schools and other organisations. This document sets out the rationale for terminating the contract and the terms of the agreement. Dexter Whitfield European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. SSP. HBS strategic partnership education schools Terra Firma outsourcing Strategic Service-delivery Partnership Public Private Partnership PPP contract failure value for money scrutiny failure Community OrganisationsGovernment BodiesTrade Unions Contract and Privatisation Failures XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) Level Double-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit text/html HTML 2008-03-29T09:28:05Z Created 2008-03-29T09:42:16Z Modified