The Ministry of Health has produced evidence that in October last year it formally notified all bidders who were interested in supplying drugs to the health sector of the status of their tenders in the highly controversial process that resulted in only the New GPC being cleared.
The government had been accused of devising pre-qualification procedures to suit New GPC, with which it has had close ties, and to shut out others. This led to close scrutiny of the process and a dispute then arose last year as to whether the ministry had complied with the Procurement Act as regards notifying the
