London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses Palantir of bypassing procurement rules

Lawyers for London Mayor Sadiq Khan have accused the Metropolitan Police of breaching procurement rules by working with Palantir Technologies Inc. on a £50 million AI and data analysis contract, which Palantir challenged in the High Court in June after Khan's deputy mayor refused to approve it.

LONDON — Lawyers working on behalf of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have accused the capital’s police force of breaching procurement rules by working with Palantir to award the U.S. tech giant a closely watched police contract. The case follows concerns expressed by multiple parliamentary committees https://www.politico.eu/article/drop-palantir-from-nhs-mps-tell-minister about the U.K.’s dependence on foreign technology firms such as Palantir, which was co-founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. The tech firm brought a claim against the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in the High Court in June after Khan’s deputy mayor refused to sign off on a £50 million contract with the Metropolitan Police for the provision of an AI and data analysis service.