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Most Canadian businesses that answered federal and provincial calls during the pandemic to build up a domestic sector for personal protective equipment have collapsed.

The association that represents Canadian PPE companies says 90 per cent of those businesses have been forced to close or pivot to other industries because the federal government and Ontario have given contracts to a massive American company and a Quebec operation.

“We’ve got an industry that is just running on fumes,” Barry Hunt, the president of the Canadian Association of PPE Manufacturers, said in an interview.

“Most of them are out of business and the ones that aren’t out of business are going out of business quickly.”

“There was a promise to procure at the end and that has never happened,” said Hunt, whose association has 15 companies remaining as members.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9556030/canada-ppe-industry-analysis/

It's the same in many jurisdictions...The govt put out a call for help to procure PPE and those who answered (often investing alot of money and resources) got exactly nothing from the govt. What we need is accountability from these govt individuals who put out the call for help and later just awarded all contracts to the big and established companies who actually let them down to begin with... Crazy (and just wrong)


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“default male” PPE is a problem across many industries, but it is particularly egregious when it comes to healthcare, because this workforce is female-dominated (67% of healthcare workers globally are female). And in the context of a deadly pandemic, we should have been listening to that female-dominated workforce when they started raising the alarm.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/03/covid-inquiry-women-ill-fitting-ppe-pandemic-unisex-healthcare


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The head of Australia’s Covid inquiry has signalled her panel will examine the procurement of PPE after revelations that a $100m deal with a relatively obscure online retailer left the government with 46m unusable masks.

The Guardian revealed on Wednesday that the former government had signed two contracts with the online retailer named ABM to supply Australia with 50m masks and 7m gowns during the early months of the pandemic.

ABM had little apparent pre-pandemic experience in supplying PPE and had predominantly sold massage guns, bedding, air fryers and robot vacuum cleaners before winning the work through limited tender.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/09/covid-inquiry-to-examine-ppe-procurement-after-revelations-australia-got-46m-unusable-masks

This was the problem, no? There was little to no checks and balances and vetting of so-called suppliers before these government procurement people went ahead and placed millions of dollars worth of PPE. How did this happen? Many point to the crazy marketplace conditions during covid but I'd argue there was probably much more malfeasance happening because these people who placed orders and signed off on purchase orders were professionals. There has always been rigid checks and balances when procuring from any supplier/ manufacturer, especially when we are talking millions of dollars. Experienced procurement professionals would never just put trust in suppliers who do not have a history in supplying the products in question. More often than not, alarm bells would have rung endlessly and these buyers would not have issued orders, sent high value order deposits or issued any sized orders without more proof (samples, references, inspections and more favourable/ safe payment terms and methods)... to ignore very basic procurement procedures was asking for trouble and if the marketplace was super crazy (which it was) then all the more reason to utilize tried and trusted procurement procedures....


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Covid inquiry to examine PPE procurement after revelations Australia got 46m unusable masks Panel chair says provision of key medical supplies will be considered as part of inquiry into country’s pandemic response

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