Peter Agius lodges formal complaint over St Vincent de Paul direct order MEP candidate Peter Agius calls on European Commission to investigate ‘ongoing systematic breaches’ of public procurement rules by authorities 20 May 2021, 1:30pm by Karl Azzopardi The Nationalist MEP candidate Peter Agius has lodged a formal complaint with European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton over the St Vincent de Paul direct order. The contract was awarded by negotiated procedure in November 2017. The same companies had already won a separate bid to build a new kitchen at SVPR and construct an extension. What was intended to be a catering contract was turned into a mega-contract for the award of a new hospital wing built by the DB Group and James Caterers, by way of a negotiated procedure.