City of Hamilton awards $1.4M contract to company tied to security firm banned from public contracts in Quebec | CBC News Loaded
The federal government temporarily banned Neptune Security Services from bidding on its contracts in 2023. Those contracts ended when Neptune declared bankruptcy in May 2023, leaving hundreds of security guards across Ontario unemployed and unpaid.earlier this year. In a letter dated Feb. 2, Butler denied his personal integrity has ever been called into question.
After Neptune went bankrupt, the City of Hamilton began searching for replacement companies. By February 2024, it had awarded the four-year, $1.4-million contract for the weigh scales to "Protecting city interests and getting the best value for taxpayers dollars is the city's top priority and a key part of ongoing procurement efforts," the city said in a statement to CBC Hamilton.
EuroWorld submitted a different address to the city during the bidding process. CBC Hamilton went to the address, a strip mall in Mississauga, but found no indication EuroWorld was located there. A security company that does have an office at that address and a property manager both said they'd never heard of EuroWorld.