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“All of the hubs in the country were emptying. There was no stock and hospitals had started to call, to say they were in a panic. It took all of December and January to beg [the government] to release the Brexit stock as a matter of emergency, whilst we went to production full-scale in the background, and urged them to place orders on products that were running out,” she said.
Stoute said her company went into production without specific orders because it had previously experienced the government’s failure to react with speed in other health emergencies.
She said she called a particular health official to ask them to order supplies of a particular product as quickly as possible from Wuhan, but that the department did not react.
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The logistics company Uniserve is not a household name but it has received the highest total value of Covid contracts from the the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) without a tender.
Earlier this year, the government suspended normal procurement and sourcing practice in the the rush to supply the NHS with the personal protective and medical equipment (PPE) it needed.
To date, over 8,600 contacts have been awarded worth £18 billion.
The government awarded £777 million of contracts to Uniserve, a transport company based in Essex, without offering other companies the chance to bid for them.
On March 30, the DHSC awarded Uniserve a 12 month contract worth £473 million to provide freight services for the supply of PPE and medical equipment .
UK logistics firm given almost £800m of Covid contracts without tender
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