Omega to receive up to £374m from UK test deal
By Kristy Dorsey
Scotland’s Omega Diagnostics will receive up to £374 million to manufacture rapid Covid-19 tests on behalf of the UK Government.
As a result of the contract with the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), Omega will also get government assistance to secure specialist machinery required to dramatically increase capacity at its headquarters in Alva. Headcount across the company, which has a second facility in Cambridgeshire, is expected to surpass 250 by the end of next month, up from 190 in January.
Omega emphasised that the £374m figure represented a “maximum of the potential value of the contract”, and that orders could be lower.