Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 19
19
The Cabinet Office also drew on external expertise where required.
Conclusion
The Cabinet Office also drew on external expertise where required. We heard that the Chief Commercial Officer happened to have a background in running engineering and product development companies that meant he was well placed to develop and initiate the programme. Additionally the Cabinet Office’s ‘technical design authority’, put in place to support decision making as part of the ventilator challenge, drew on the expertise of NHS clinicians, the Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and PA consulting (acting as a programme manager) as well as other government departments; it also drew on data from device-testing experts.32 The Cabinet Office emphasised that it believes it was having cross-functional teams working on the project from the beginning that “really proved successful”.33 Intellectual property
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 25 March 2021. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗