
The Institute of Public Health has opened a 40 ml tender for kit purchases, in response to the increase in the number of infectiouss that has been reported in recent days.
The increase in infections is billed for the removal of restrictive measures and the addition of movements due to the tourist season and the arrival of migrants.
About 400,000 euros will spend the ISP on buying these materials for a time period of 1 year. The tender is divided into four tears and on the page of the Public Procurement Agency. The number of kits to be purchased is depending on the price to be found on the market.
Publication for this tender was made on 14 June and the acceptance of offers is until 29 this month.
Health tenders are one of the most problematic in terms of transparency and accounting. According to data from March 2020 to May 2021, health institutions contracted 60 companies for supplies of materials related to COVID-19 and 18% of total contracts were secret.
In health sector tenders the race has resulted in very limited. From 2016 to December 2021, according to Open Data data in 55.4 percent of tenders there was only one operator participating in the race, 35 percent had more than two operators in the race.