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How 23-year-old with no relevant experience was among firms who cashed in on government’s ‘shambolic’ £12bn NHS safety equipment bonanza – Daily Mail

  • Government relaxed procurement rules to allow officials to award contracts  
  • PPE team of 450 staff handed out more than 6,900 contracts worth £12.3billion 
  • Officials paid £3.8million into the wrong bank account in one instance 
  • Sabi Mokeddem, 23, was given £880,000 to supply 55,000 coveralls

Our investigation – distinct from from today’s NAO report – uncovers how blundering officials paid £3.8million into the wrong bank account in one instance and handed an £880,000 contract to a 23-year-old with no relative experience in another.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8959451/Companies-no-experience-pocketed-12bn-Governments-shambolic-PPE-scramble.html

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MHRA urgently seeks software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction – Tenders Electronic Daily

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the ‘Supplement to the Official Journal’ of the EU, dedicated to European public procurement.

The MHRA urgently seeks an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) and ensure that no details from the ADRs’ reaction text are missed.

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=1