Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 11
Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic
Published 18 Jul 2023
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
During the initial stages of the crisis, the Department solicited offers to provide PPE with no tendering process and received multiple offers from companies without any track record of delivering PPE and/or with varying track records and longevity. The Department then had insufficient time and resources to reflect properly on each offer, and under pressure caused by the sudden need for PPE, chose to accept very high levels of risk, as we have reported previously in our reports.4
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.