#Procurement

Jon Stone

joncstone

THREAD: here's the timeline around the UK not joining the EU coronavirus equipment procurement scheme. it makes interesting reading! 31 January, 2 March, 19 March: British officials in Brussels attend

Sustain

UKSustain

Missed tonight's #Countryfile investigation into public sector food?No problem - Here are the highlights!1) @mynameisAndyJ - top caterer - explains the problems with low-standard meat on public plates 2) Are

Angelo Basu

botzarelli

Going into April and beyond, the concerns are in logistics. International transport is becoming restricted so everyone is moving to local supply and local storage rather than national or regional.

betsythemuffin

betsythemuffin

every time you hear about the COBOL programmer shortage please mentally substitute:"We were too cheap to pay for maintenance, so no new programmers learned COBOL." You could also try,"We have

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

Last week, I spoke to @Freedland who asked me whether I thought the Ayanda contract was corrupt. That was not then a word I was prepared to use (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/07/its-taken-just-12-months-for-boris-johnso

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

Boris Johnson has just talked about a massive expansion of rapid result home testing kits which seem to be the saliva tests made by Innova.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/28/10-of-englands-population-could-be-tested-for-covid-19-

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

There are just too many stories of PPE supplies being shipped into hot spot states and being conficated by US customs when they arrive through an airport or US port.

Roderick Campbell

R_o_d_C

Remember when @Barnaby_Joyce paid $80m for water from a company founded by @AngusTaylorMP, after the @DeptAgNews had bargained the price *up*?Auditor General report out TOMORROW.https://twitter.com/BenOquist/status/1283222907192143873 This

Jack Haas

JackHaas14

Who is really responsible for the NHS failure to procure sufficient PPE for healthcare workers, a thread: In April 2018, Supply Chain Coordination Limited (SCCL) was established to 'manage the

Laura Kuenssberg

bbclaurak

Latest press conf - Hancock defends govt performance on PPE, says doing everything they can + in direct talks with factories making kit, not all suppliers can provide at scale

Maureen Fitzsimmons

mojos55

Several weeks back we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael #Gove for his decision to award an £840,000 contract to associates of his and Dominic #Cummings, without any advertisement or

Bar & Bench

barandbench

Narcotics Control Bureau requests 14 days of judicial custody (till September 22) of Rhea Chakraborty during the hearing today. @narcoticsbureau @Tweet2Rhea #RheaChakraborty #RheaChakraborthy #RheaChakrabortyArrested NCB while explaining a

Aaditya Thackeray

AUThackeray

The Govt of Maharashtra has decided to vaccinate all its citizens free of cost.This is not something that we think of as a choice, but a duty that we consider

Mark Culley

MCulleyMCIPS

I said I’d tweet my work/life balance experience since lockdown so here’s a thread on that...My last day in the office was March 13th, since then I have been lucky

Aidan Feldman

aidanfeldman

the idea came up at work today: federal government has restrictions with the (tech) work it can do with state and local governments, and state and local governments don't have

Pippa Crerar

PippaCrerar

This is astonishing. No 10 and ministers have always insisted the decision was nothing to do with ideology.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/coronavirus-uks-decision-not-join-21903329 Matt Hancock denies this was political decision. “There was n