A firm awarded millions in government contracts despite warnings about its owner’s credentials has gone bust – leaving hundreds of staff out of work just weeks before Christmas. Go-centric – run by sports car-driving David Harper – folded last Thursday, leaving 600 call centre employees facing an uncertain future.
It’s the third firm associated with the 42-year-old which has collapsed after being given public contracts. Glasgow-based Go-centric was given almost £10million from the Scottish Government to manage the Test and Protect contact tracing service during the pandemic but furloughed staff almost immediately after taking on the work.
And in August this year the UK Government granted it a £1.4million contract to run the Warm Home Discount Scheme, which it was still working on when it stopped trading last week. The taxpayers’ cash was handed over despite the record of two firms linked to Go-centric chairman Harper.
