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Originally Posted by nomadking
So no advantage whatsoever in being part of an EU scheme that would control and limit allocation anyway.  So what is all the fuss and nonsense about? |
Seriously?
So, it's no advantage in being part of a scheme that started over a month ago, and has orders with suppliers and shippers that will be arriving soon, rather than scrambling for orders from places like Turkey that get held up because they don't have local Government clearance (in this case, a Turkish export licence), on goods that have multiple weeks/months supply chain requirements, and haven't even received final NHS approval?
https://www.ft.com/content/a265fac3-...d-769d281fa42f
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There were chaotic scenes in Turkey, where British officials desperately worked with Ankara to source PPE to load on to an RAF plane after an initial order with a Turkish supplier for 84 tonnes of equipment failed to materialise.
Whitehall officials said on Tuesday that part of a Turkish PPE consignment — originally scheduled to arrive on Sunday — had finally arrived at Istanbul airport, but had not been cleared by customs or received final NHS approval.
However, the RAF plane waiting on the tarmac at Istanbul to deliver the PPE to the UK has a maximum capacity of 25 tonnes. Two further military aircraft, which are still at Brize Norton airfield in Oxfordshire, were awaiting orders to depart for Turkey.
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Meanwhile, next week the first British-made surgical gowns will go into production. Don & Low, a rare producer in the UK of the specialist non-woven material required, has signed a government contract to make enough for 3m-3.5m gowns over three months.
Burberry, the fashion house, and other clothing makers will stitch the gowns. Will Campbell, sales manager of Don & Low, told the FT they had to “build a supply chain from the ground up . . . The problem is the whole world is buying 10, 12 times the normal requirements. We don’t traditionally make gowns in the UK.”
He said his company was first approached by the government about three weeks ago.
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tl:dr - the sooner we placed the orders in an agreed procurement process, the sooner we would have received the equipment required, as there is intense competition for PPE which often has a long materials supply chain.