Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 10
Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic
Published 18 Jul 2023
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The papers concerning the contracts with PPE Medpro do provide further strong indications of what this Committee has repeatedly found in our work on procurement failings during the pandemic. The Committee has seen evidence of officials working at very fast pace in extraordinary circumstances to procure the PPE which was urgently needed by staff working on the front lines of the pandemic in the health and social care sectors. The overall picture is of civil servants trying to fulfil the normal requirements of good contracting but without the time or structures in place to allow them to do this.
From: Public Accounts Committee, Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic (HC 1590), 18 July 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 24 September 2023.