Mumbai's Civic Body Rejects Vaccine Bids Made In Response To Global Tender

The civic body is now in talks with Dr Reddy's Laboratories, the distributor of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, and the firm has agreed to supply some doses on an experimental basis.

All nine proposals received for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines for Mumbai have been rejected for lack of necessary documents, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Friday. The civic body is now in talks with Dr Reddy's Laboratories, the distributor of the Russian Sputnik Vvaccine, and the firm has agreed to supply some doses on an experimental basis before June-end, it said in a statement. On May 12, the civic body had invited the global "Expression of Interest" for supplying one crore vaccine doses. The deadline was extended twice, on May 18 and May 25, before 10 suppliers submitted proposals. But one of them withdrew from the race before the deadline of June 1, 2021.