KOCHI: The Kerala Medical Providers Company Ltd (KMSCL), the state’s procurement company, on Friday knowledgeable the Excessive Court docket that the worldwide tender floated to obtain Covid vaccines instantly from worldwide market didn’t evoke any response. This is similar place as with different states within the nation, it added.
When the case associated to Covid vaccination points got here up for listening to, M Ajay, counsel for the company, submitted that although the company had made a honest effort to obtain vaccine by international tender, no bidders approached the state.
The federal government has accorded sanction to KMSCL to undertake international tender for the acquisition of three crore doses of vaccines from the producers authorised by the Medicine Management Normal of India. Nonetheless, there was no response from vaccine producers. Now the company has to rely upon the Centre to get vaccines provided by international producers for the state, it stated.
