STATE GOVT EXTENDS LAST DATE FOR VACCINE BID SUBMISSION BY 10 DAYS

LUCKNOW : The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday extended by 10 days the last date for submission of the bids to supply 40 million doses of Covid vaccines till May 31.

Additional chief secretary (health and family welfare) Amit Mohan Prasad said the last date was extended on the request of the vaccine manufacturing companies that were keen to participate in the global tender floated by the state government to procure vaccines. May 21 was the last date earlier, he said.

Representatives of various companies told the state government that some of them were yet to get the regulatory approval from the central government, Prasad said. Others said that they needed time to maintain the vaccine stock as, according to the bid conditions, the companies would have to supply the second dose after the first one, he added. The representative of another company said that they needed time for obtaining approval for the vaccine rate, Prasad said.

Additional chief secretary