Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 4th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the request from the Minister of State, Lord Agnew, of 25 September 2020, contained on page 40 of the Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons, 17 November 2021, relating to Government contracts awarded to Randox Laboratories Ltd HC 1072, that proper international benchmarking of pricing for comparable tests take place over the next month, what benchmarking for covid-19 tests had been conducted by the end of October 2020.


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Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 28th March 2022

All Government contracts are subject to commercial review before award to obtain value for money. The commercial review undertaken for the Randox contract variation in October 2020 included price benchmarking to inform negotiation. This led to significant price reductions to the contract.

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