Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 20
Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic
Published 18 Jul 2023
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
Last year we looked at how the Department had procured COVID tests with an individual company (Randox Laboratories Ltd) and raised concerns about inadequate records of how contracts were awarded and who had met with whom, failure to deal with conflicts of interest, a lack of scrutiny from senior officials or clarity on the role of ministers, and a lack of awareness of the scope for excess profits. There were also failures to hold the contractor to account for performance while entering into further contracts.12
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.