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Consultant for exam chaos accumulates five million euros in contracts
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Consultant for exam chaos accumulates five million euros in contracts

Correio da Manhã14 September 2026 at 01:30

A consultancy is at the center of a controversy related to the organization of exams, accumulating contracts worth a total of five million euros. The company was hired to intervene in a situation of chaos related to the holding of exams.

The use of this consultancy, identified in the article as Deloitte, was justified by the government as being "by imperious urgency." This urgency in hiring raises questions about the planning and preparation for the holding of exams.

The specific contract with Deloitte cost 600 thousand euros. This amount represents only a fraction of the total five million euros in contracts signed with the consultancy in the context of this situation.

The article does not specify what type of exams this chaos situation refers to, but indicates that there was an urgent need for external intervention to resolve problems in their organization.

Why this matters

Readers are affected because their taxes funded these multi-million euro contracts during an exam crisis. The hiring through "imperious urgency" raises questions about the management of public education services and transparency in government spending.

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