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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Ungoed-Thomas

UK pest-control firm made £9m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE deal during pandemic

The NHS was in need of PPE at the start of the pandemic.
The NHS was in need of PPE at the start of the pandemic. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA

A pest control supplies firm has disclosed it made a profit of more than £9m for supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic after it was put into the government’s controversial VIP procurement lane.

Crisp Websites, which trades as PestFix, had assets of just over £18,000 and 16 employees before the pandemic, but won contracts worth £344m. In its latest accounts, the firm says it “does not intend to return to the PPE market”.

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