The Scotsman

Senior managers from the construction giant Bovis were confronted with claims yesterday that they were involved in a rigged competition for the main contract on the Holyrood project. The suggestion of rigging was made by John Campbell, QC, counsel to the Holyrood Inquiry, who suggested that Bovis "was always in line" to get the lucrative contract. It also emerged yesterday that Bovis will achieve a £4 million profit from the overdue and over-budget project, nearly seven times more than the £617,000 the company predicted it would make when it won the contract in 1999.