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Response from GROS to FOI request about Scottish census contract [UK]
…EU procurement rules…do not allow…unsubstantiated allegations to be used as a reason for not awarding a contract...GROS had been fully informed by the company about the work which [CACI]…undertook at Abu Ghraib…the unsuccessful legal cases against them, and the company’s rebuttal of the allegations...The law suits…raised by Iraqi civilians 4 years ago and renewed recently, have not proceeded...[T]he allegations…have not been proved… We would never knowingly be party to a contract with any company convicted of human rights abuses...The contract…provides for termination…[but] [t]here is no specific provision for the event…that CACI or its staff are either convicted of a criminal offence in the US, or held liable under US civil law for human rights abuses…