FDA Approved Suppliers of COVID-19 Testing Kits
May 12, 2020
As the country continues to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, testing remains one of the keys to mitigating the virus and reopening the economy. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been rapidly reviewing and approving Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) in order to ensure adequate...
Europe’s virus furlough programs bail out 40 million workers
May 6, 2020
Bloomberg reports that European governments have had to spend large sums to protect workers during the coronavirus restrictions. More than 40 million workers have been furloughed during the shutdowns, based on data from the region’s six biggest economies, getting a portion of their pay covered by...
Tradeshift-enabled government trade finance programme launches
May 6, 2020
European fintech specialising in supply chain payments, Tradeshift, is working with the Danish Export Credit Agency (EKF) to open up much-needed liquidity to businesses in Denmark through a technology-driven supply chain financing model. Under this Danish initiative banks will be encouraged to...
Drones and Associated Products and Services framework for the public sector
May 6, 2020
The UK 100% publicly owned YPO has announced the launch of its new Drones and Associated Products and Services framework for the emergency service and the wider public sector. The first of its kind. Last year YPO was approached by the Home Office to discuss a gap in public procurement....
AWS Launches Search Website Powered by Machine Learning to Quickly Search COVID-19 Dataset
May 1, 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new search website powered by machine learning that can help researchers quickly and easily search tens of thousands of research papers and documents using natural language questions.
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released the CORD-19 dataset (COVID-19 Open...
European regulators will not relax rules during coronavirus crisis
Apr 23, 2020
Compliance Week writes that European businesses may be putting themselves at risk because they mistakenly believe regulators are prepared to loosen the rules, lower the compliance burden, and lessen enforcement so companies can operate more easily as the coronavirus pandemic lingers on. Three areas...
eBay NHS Portal now live to supply PPE across the UK with DHSC
Apr 23, 2020
A new portal has been launched using the combined efforts of eBay, the Army and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). The eBay NHS Portal will supply PPE to around 50,000 non-acute health providers via free access to PPE at the point of order from NHS Supply Chain. 42,000 pieces of PPE...
In securing PPE for NHS staff working on coronavirus frontline, government must not ignore abuse of factory workers
Apr 23, 2020
According to The Guardian, human rights groups warn that the UK government must not ignore the “slave-like” conditions of migrant workers making rubber medical gloves in Malaysia in its rush to source protective equipment to keep frontline NHS staff safe from coronavirus. “Malaysia is the...
PSF CEO on NBC Washington Discusses Efforts to Combat COVID-19
Apr 21, 2020
Public Spend Forum is directly supporting government professionals and healthcare workers to address critical shortages for ventilators, respirators, personal protective equipment (PPE) and more, by providing free data on suppliers and inventory on GovShop.
Reporter Melissa Mollet from NBC...
Report: U.S. Federal Government Spend on COVID-19 Response
Apr 20, 2020
Insights for Agency Leaders and Policy Makers
U.S. federal government spending priorities are shifting in response to the evolving demands of the COVID-19 response. In Censeo Consulting’s latest report, they highlight several key insights from the past 4 weeks of federal spend data to inform...
EU, UK Guidance on Public Procurement Rules during COVID-19
Apr 17, 2020
The European Commission has set out guidance that is relevant EU-wide and also in the UK during the Brexit transitional period (which runs to 31 December 2020) explaining the flexibility allowed under the rules in situations of procurement in extreme urgency. Purchases that are subject to public...
MOD contractors in ‘non-essential’ work investigation
Apr 16, 2020
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to investigate concerns that military contractors from across the country have travelled to the north-east to carry out ‘non-essential’ work. Dozens of contractors have arrived at RAF Lossiemouth to carry out work for the MoD as well as maintenance work on...
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