Mac Mickmanus

When you are deciding whether to give a contract out to various bidders , deciding which one was the best offer would include taking the price into consideration and the lowest price would be cindered to be the best offer . Or are you saying that the worst offer would be the lowest price and the best offer would be the most expensive , if two companies were offering the same thing . The company that won the contract offered the lowest price and that was considered to be the best offer. Lowest and best in the same sentence there

They did . Here , from Wiki Following open tender under EU public procurement rules in 2018, the Franco-Dutch security firm Gemalto was selected over British banknote and travel document printer De La Rue. The result of the tender proved highly controversial, as it saw the production of British passport blanks moved from Gateshead in the UK to Tczew, Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport#:~:text=The result of the tender,it being more cost efficient.

Yes, but IMO the UK should have our passports printed in the UK and hopefully that will happen in the future now that we don't have to follow E.U rules

Check the link date . The new E.U rules about Procurement policy came into effect on January 1 st 2018 which were the rules the UK followed and that's why the UK PPs were printed in Poland , any Country getting passports made before that date , the French for example, wouldn't have to abide by those rules and the French gave their contract out for PP printing BEFORE the new rules came into effect https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-policy-note-0417-new-threshold-levels-2018

Congo is very expensive , on par with western Countries

I prefer UK weather when it gets cold , then you really appreciate the hot summer days and being unbearably hot everyday becomes unpleasant .

Do I really have to explain ? There isn't a rule that says "UK passports HAVE to be made in Poland" which is what you claimed I said . There IS an E.U rule which states that the lowest/best bid needs to be given the contract to print the passports . So its THAT E.U rule which is the reason why UK PP's are printed in Poland . If there wasn't an E.U rule stating that the lowest/best bid needs to be given the contract, then the UK Gov could have given the contract to a UK company and got the passports printed in the UK

Each company would submit their application detailing what they can provide and the cost and the UK Gov would make a decision based on what is offered and price would be a major factor in that . Point being that the UK Gov couldn't give the contract to a UK company on the basis the PP's would get printed in the UK , bids were submitted anonymously and the name of the company or where the PP's would get made wasn't on the info submitted in the applications

Lowest and best have a similar meaning and using either word doesn't change the context of what I mean , the lowest bid would be the best bid . Doesn't change the point that the UK couldn't choose a UK company to print the passports and it had to choose the best/lowest bidder and that's why the passports are printed in Poland

No Ray , a Company who didn't meet all the requirements wouldn't be given the contract , once again you are making things up and attributing them to me and saying that I am wrong . They would have to meet certain requirements in order to submit their bid , do stop making things up

The UK Government had to award the contract to the best bidder and the price would contribute to who the best bidder was . Contracts proposals were submitted anonymously without the company being named and the UK Gov chose the lowest bidder who printed the passports in Poland . UK printers would have had higher costs and would have submitted a higher price in the contract . The UK Government wasnt allowed to choose a British company to print the passports , it had to choose the lowest/best bidder

Have you got a link to that ?

I wasn't speaking of personal experience , but I would have thought that it would be difficult to buy sex in Saudi Arabia , Bhutan, Qatar and maybe a few other Countries

What I wrote wasn't misleading though , it was the E.U rules which forced the UK to get its passports printed in Poland , E.U rules required the UK to give the contract to the lowest/best bidder and the lowest bid came from a company who printed them in Poland . The UK Gov would probably have chosen a UK company to print the PP's if it wasn't for the E.U rules .

The bit you edited out, see post above for explanation

Ray claimed : "EU rules didn't dictate that UK passports had to be produced in Poland." Can you see the word HAD in my post ? It isn't there , Ray added the word and that changed the meaning of what I said

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It was E.U rules that stated that the UK must be give the contract to make the passports to the lowest bidder and that low bid came from Poland and so the UK was forced to give the contract to Poland for the PP's to be made there Ray , I did not NOT say that the passports HAD to be made in Poland , Please stop making quotes up and attributing them to me and then saying that I am wrong about something

Didnt you previously state you have had sex with over 5000 different woman, that's about 2 per week ?

You can find prostitution in most Countries and having sex isn't problem in most Countries

You didn't understand my post

Well, it is currently going through the legal process and the outcome is awaited , so yes, its not actually illegal, but the legal judgement is being awaited . But my point is that not all sides agree to the current situation

Why don't you use Baht instead of $ ? Were your $ figure American, Canadian or Australian ? Thailand uses Baht as its currency

The UK is now sending them straight back home on airplanes or to Rwanda

It was E.U rules that was the reason for UK (blue) passports being made in Poland