Covid-19 contracts and public procurement

In responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government and other public sector bodies have outsourced many parts of their response to the private sector. Contracts range from supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), laboratory testing, Test & trace services, to education spending and consultancy. Concerns have been raised about the performance of these outsourced services, and about lack of transparency of some procurement processes.

This document was updated on 13 October to include a reference to new data tracker on government Covid-19 related contracts and spending by Tussell (section 1.5).