In total, five tenders for rapid tests worth just under $62 million were quietly published on Tuesday by the Department of Health.
Rapid antigen tests have been in short supply as the number of cases across the nation rises. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Flavio BrancaleoneInstead, the department said the tender was part of the broader procurement of more than 70 million rapid tests. “It's the same rules that apply for PCR tests. States secure the supplies for PCR tests, and for RAT tests that they’d be supplying for their own purposes in whatever state has always been a matter for the states,” he told reporters in Canberra.
“How Scott Morrison could have left it until this week to order the RAT tests needed beggars belief.”
Diffusion of responsibility is what this government has concentrated on. Nothing else, because the former means they have nothing else to do
Thanks Scott - u told me I had to get my own - so I did. The supplier tells me feds took the supply they were sending to me . Do now I have paid for tests I cannot get delivered and the ones u bought I can’t get either. Good work tiger!
SkidMark from Marketing does it again. Easy to see why this guy was 'let go' from his tourism jobs or 'left earlier than scheduled'.
News corp reporting supporting the Andrews Dictator Govt
I have looked for the tenders on the Aus gov tender site. Can't see them. Can you provide a link?
A FailedPM and Treasurer ScottMorrisonMP and JoshFrydenberg Failed to plan - tried to BS and the Mob worked out how LiberalAus defraud Australians - robbed the country from a successful reopening after we followed the rules
Why are Feds taking Rapid tests at the border, sourced & purchased by Private Sector? How am I meant to use them for staff when the Feds have taken my ordered stock delaying my delivery until more are sourced? Is this how they are procuring those 200m tests they didn't plan for?
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