A&E Software Contract, Lightly Used: Hospital IT Deal, £950,000

Item specifics

Condition	Guilty plea, Guildford Crown Court, 6 Jan 2017
Location	Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey, GB
Seller	Director of Informatics, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust (name not given)
Winning bidder	An IT supplier (not named)
Category	Technology
Sold	From 2011
Returns	No returns. Payer ordered to pay £81,168.69 within three months (2017)

Description

What the bribe bought

The payments helped win a contract for accident and emergency software at Royal Surrey County Hospital, worth £950,000 (contract value, not profit).

Return on bribe: Every £1 of bribes bought contracts worth about £12.

What happened

An IT supplier paid the hospital's Director of Informatics £80,970, as stated in court, in return for being awarded the contract. The official admitted receiving payments from the supplier in return for the contract. Both men were sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on 6 January 2017. At a proceeds-of-crime hearing on 3 November 2017, the payer was ordered to pay £81,168.69 within three months.

Read the article

NHS director [...] jailed over corrupt hospital contract · BBC News

Shipping & returns

Authority	Kind	Amount	Year
Court (proceeds-of-crime hearing, 3 Nov 2017)	confiscation (payer)	£81,168.69≈ €96.8KAs stated in the source: tangible assets worth £81,168.69, and he was ordered to pay that sum within three months	2017