Regarding the issue of global tender, the High Court has issued a notice to the government and sought a reply in 7 days. The court has sought a response from the government on the PIL filed by High Court lawyer Shailendra Dubey.
In the petition, a global tender has been issued and a demand has been made to buy the vaccine directly from foreign vaccine producers. In the petition, the state government has been asked to issue a global tender. It has also been said in the petition that keeping in mind the third wave, the government should take a quick decision on issuing global tables.
In view of the huge shortage of Kovid 19 vaccine in the country, many states have started preparing to order it through global tender from other countries of the world. The central government is also encouraging the states for this. The UP government has issued a global tender and has become the first state to do so.
The Uttar Pradesh government has issued a global tender for four crore vaccine doses. According to media reports, the Uttar Pradesh government has also placed an order to buy 50 lakh vaccines from Serum and Bharat Biotech. Apart from this, the government will buy 4 to 5 crore doses of vaccine through global tender.
The government has also announced on Monday that it will order the vaccine from global tender. On Tuesday, the Telangana government has also said that it will issue a global tender for the purchase of the Kovid vaccine.
The Maharashtra government has also indicated that efforts will be made to procure the vaccine internationally. Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia also said that the Delhi government will issue a global tender for the Kovid vaccine.
The Karnataka government has also announced that it will order 20 million doses of vaccine from global tenders so that the work of vaccinating people between the ages of 18 and 44 can be completed.
Significantly, India is one of the largest markets in the world in terms of Kovid vaccine. Therefore, there is a good business opportunity here for the companies making vaccines. More than 260 crore doses will be required to vaccinate about 130 crore population here. So all the major vaccine companies will bid very cheaply to capture this huge market. In UP alone, the number of people between the ages of 18 and 44 is 9 crore. Similarly, people above 45 years are about 4.3 crores.
Global tender is actually a tender issued for companies from countries around the world. It is released by the concerned department on its website or through reputed national-international media. It is also released on several websites related to global tenders. Global tender is issued so that the process of procurement is transparent and everyone is given a chance.
Through this, international companies are invited to bid for the supply of goods. The contract for supply is awarded to the company whose bid is the lowest.
The UP government has issued a global tender only last week and has become the first state to do so. The UP government will announce the name of the winner of this tender by the end of May.
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High Court notice regarding global tender, demand from state government to buy vaccine directly from foreign vaccine companies
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No company responded to Uttarakhand govt’s global tender for COVID-19 vaccines procurement
By ANI
DEHRADUN: No company has, so far, responded to the global tender floated by the state government to procure COVID-19 vaccines, the Uttarakhand government informed on Tuesday.“So far, no company has responded to the global tender for COVID19 vaccines procurement by the state government. The time for submission of interest for tender has been extended till May 31 May”, informed an official statement by State Health Department.
The Uttarakhand government on May 15 floated a global tender for procurement of COVID-19 vaccine to vaccinate people in the state.
Amid the shortage of COVID-19 vaccines supply, the Uttarakhand Government on May 11 constituted a 5-member committee that aimed to work towards procuring vaccines through global tenders.
“It has become necessary to vaccinate the people of the state immediately against COVID-19 in order to contain the outbreak. Considering the shortage of Covishield and Covaxin, a committee has been formed to import these vaccines like Sputnik V from different countries. The committee will work towards procuring vaccines through global tenders”, the state government order had informed.
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand reported 3,194 fresh COVID-19 cases, 6,173 discharges and 71 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the state health bulletin on Monday. To curb the number of Covid-19 cases, the government has imposed a lockdown in the state till June 1.