Public Procurement
Yesterday, Dominic Cummings made an appearance in the Commons to shoot in every direction bar himself. That in itself is not really surprising, but let's look at what he said about procurement: “In spring 2020 you had a situation where the Department of Health was just a smoking
Public Procurement
As promised yesterday, here's the second part of the fisking of the UK Government response to the NAO report on public procurement, focused on the "claims" section of its response: “ ” This is, frankly, pure obfuscation by means of mixing up completely different things together in the
Public Procurement
It is now the end of May and I think the time has come for one final update on #ventilatorgate. Well, at least until the public inquiry into this mess gets in full swing. As of May 19th only 13,000 ventilators were available in the NHS, an increase of
Public Procurement
I haven't had much time to look into #ventilatorgate in the past couple of weeks, but there was an interesting development last Friday with an update from the Cabinet Office. On this update we found out that: 1. The UK received 150 ventilators from Sweden in the first
Public Procurement
It is now early May and over the last few days a small number of news pieces about the process. NBC has one about how some of the Chinese ventilators could kill patients if deployed in hospitals. More interestingly, both the FT and The Guardian have broader pieces of the
Public Procurement
On Friday I wondered about the status of the Dyson contract, but perhaps I should have waited until today to do so as the contract has now been cancelled. Dyson claims it spent £20M developing the new ventilator but it won't try to recoup the money from the
Public Procurement
It is now a full month after the announcement that Dyson had been handed out a contract for the development of a new ventilator from scratch. In the absence of any recent official update, Dyson itself put out a nice video on April 14th stating that some units had been
Public Procurement
Albert has once more looked into the sorrow state of the ventilator procurement process and coined an excellent name for the whole saga: #ventilatorgate. I think it is a perfect epitaph for the situation. On his most recent entry he looked into the responses of the Government to the FT