The Secret State
The UK state machinery acts in your best interests by keeping information from you.
Our double X agent XXXXXX XXXXXX has unearthed another piece of information on the award of the Oxford Astra Zeneca (AZ) Advance Purchasing Agreement, or APA.
Dated August 2020, it is a Contract Award Notice, which is attached.
It provides more info on the procedure. These are the paras which caught our eyes:
“Justification for selected award procedure:
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