Rajasthan: Manufacturers of AstraZeneca & Sputnik express interest to participate in tender process | Jaipur News

A woman being inoculated at a hospital in Jaipur on Wednesday

JAIPUR: The manufacturers of AstraZeneca (UK) and Sputnik V (Russia) vaccines have expressed their interest to participate in the global tender process to sell their vaccines to Rajasthan. The last date of submitting the bids for the global tender is May 20 (5pm).
“We have received queries from AstraZeneca and Sputnik expressing their interest to participate in the global tender process. We’ll open quotations only after 5pm on May 20. They have informally shown interest to participate in the process. Whether they have quoted their rates, we will get to know only on Thursday evening,” said an official.
The state-run National Health Mission (NHM) had floated a global expression of interest (EOI) for the procurement of one crore doses of Covid vaccines.
International manufacturers, whose vaccine has been approved by the Government of India, could participate in the tender process. The international manufacturers (from outside India) of Covid vaccines or their authorized distributors/importers with appropriate licence to import the vaccines were eligible to participate in the EOI.
Bidders were required to possess the following: First, the Covid vaccine to be supplied must be as per the guidelines/approval issued by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) and Government of India. Second, the vaccine manufacturer should have own manufacturing licence from the vaccine manufacturing country and should hold valid World Health Organization-Good Manufacturing Practices (WHO-GMP) certificate issued by the licensing authorities for all the premises, from where the quoted product is being manufactured.
Third, for imported drugs, labels and product literature of all quoted product(s) must be submitted with WHO-GMP certificate which is on par with WHO-GMP issued by the authorities of exporting countries like US FDA or equivalent authorities of other countries etc.