#Procurement

Michael Stumo

michael_stumo

1/ This EO for Buy American drugs was long awaited. Big Pharma fought it and lost. At its core, the EO is designed to provide a base market for US-based

Abhi Athavale🇮🇳🇮🇳

athavale_abhi

```In April 2013, Punjab government passed the Punjab Contract Farming Act to provide a legal framework to contract farming. The Punjab Act did not have a provision mandating that sale

Luke Mackle

LukeBMM

Interesting article, but I think it falls foul of the same charges of over simplification that the authors levy against policy-makers in evoking the 'financial colonialism' narrative.A couple of thoughts.https://twitter.com/EmmaMAsh

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-

Glen McGregor

glen_mcgregor

Procurement minister Anita Anand on Friday: “the numbers that we've provided take into account a number of vaccines, not only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.” And today...https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anita-anand-covid-19-vaccin

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

So, just before Christmas, Government what it called a "response" to this New York Times account of cronyism in pandemic spending.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/europe/britain-covid-contracts.html And I said,

Rick Anderson 🇨🇦

RickAnderson

A quick vaccine overview currently has agreements with 7 potential vaccine providers, for up to 398 million dosesSo far, 2 of these vaccines have been authorized has agreed to purchase

Amolz(I'm allz)

Amolz_view

POINTS RELATED TO #MSP 1) MSP does not have any legal backing till now and farmers can't demand it as a right. Its just government policy and an administrative decision

Matt Hannon

hannon_matthew

A really fantastic piece of work.@theCCCuk commissioned report on Local Authorities and the Sixth Carbon Budget.Some great and entirely achievable recommendations here. The big and obvious ask beside funding seems

tolu ogunlesi

toluogunlesi

There’s a recurring misunderstanding/misinterpretation of public procurement numbers/costs, that does no one any good. If there’s going to be a debate let it at least be based on facts/reality not

Shaan Puri

ShaanVP

Hmm... something interesting I learned from my buddy @RomeenSheth about McKinsey. I thought they are just a stale boring consulting co But he told me they've acquired a ton of

Omer Carmi

CarmiOmer

I found this amazing story in former IRGC Minister Mohsen Rafighdoost’s memoirs of the beginning of the Assad-Tehran relationship in the 80’s, when arms flew from Damascus to Tehran:“We were

Rodney Campbell

rodneytwit

It is time to look beyond green and orange, suss and rumour, verandah and armchair expertise and realise we cannot rabidly damage reputations daily under the disguise of "accountability"....and we

Dave Keating

DaveKeating

The counterfactual ‘if UK was still in EU it would have slowed vaccinations’ doesn’t make sense. Without #Brexit, UK could have (and surely would have):Said no to joint procurementEmergency-authorised early

Arjun Sampath 4 HR&CE Ministry

Indumakalktchi

This picture, contrasting the Punjabi and Bihari farmer, tells you why the Jat Sikh farmers of Punjab are protesting. In Bihar, 72% of the farm produce is sold in the

András Tóth-Czifra

NoYardstick

Oh all right, everything is clear now. The EU intentionally botched its vaccine procurement, because von der Leyen didn't want to give the wrong impression that the EU accepts "the

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