Consultants' fees 'up to £6,250 a day' for work on Covid test system

Global firm BCG charged £10m over four months to deal with UK test and trace network, source says, as Tory reliance on private sector seen to growCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageManagement consultants are being paid as much as £6,250 a day to work on the British government’s struggling coronavirus testing system, sources have confirmed.Senior executives from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) are being paid fees equivalent to £1.5m a year to help speed up and reorganise the £12bn network that Boris Johnson said in May would be “world-beating”. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/consultants-fees-up-to-6250-a-day-for-work-on-covid-test-system #coronavirus_outbreak #conservative_leadership #deloitte #kpmg #management #business #civil_service #conservatives #government_data #private_sector #politics #uk_news