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Public Accounts Committee @CommonsPAC today released their report 'COVID-19: Government procurement and supply of Personal Protective Equipment' which includes recommendations also made by The Centre for the Study of Corruption (1/7)
@GavinHayman_GW Executive Director for @opencontracting and our Director @LizDavidBarrett back in November highlighted the need to improve transparency in government procurement of PPE (2/7) https://scscsussex.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/to-fix-procurement-the-uk-has-to-open-it-up/
CSC’s Professor of AC Practice and member of the government’s Procurement Transformation Advisory Panel @CSC_barrington wrote about the importance of reforming UK procurement in light of the Dec 2019 Green Paper on Transforming public procurement (3/7) https://scscsussex.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/reforming-uk-procurement-the-governments-post-brexit-green-paper/
On the report @LizDavidBarrett :
'PPE procurement has not been the government’s finest hour. This report helps to draw a distinction between what was an inevitable consequence of the crisis and areas where we can really expect better. (4/7)
'PPE procurement has not been the government’s finest hour. This report helps to draw a distinction between what was an inevitable consequence of the crisis and areas where we can really expect better. (4/7)
The lack of attention paid to record-keeping, managing conflict of interest risks and being transparent about how money was spent is indicative of a closed culture that makes accountability a low priority. (5/7)
That kind of culture increases the risks of corruption and undermines public confidence' (6/7)
Read the full report here:
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/4607/documents/46709/default/ (7/7)
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/4607/documents/46709/default/ (7/7)
