Government has stopped sole-sourcing drugs from the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (NGPC) and tenders are now being considered by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said.
“We have already started,” Ramsammy told Stabroek News on Thursday. He said bids were recently advertised via the government procurement website and at least five companies collected bid documents. The government’s procurement website www.eprocure.gov.gy is currently down so this newspaper was unable to verify when the bids had been opened. Ramsammy said the Health Ministry is currently awaiting the decision by the NPTAB.
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