UK government forms for medical and emergency procurement

The UK government has no database of UK manufacturers.

They have two forms to show interest in providing medical or emergency goods and services.

• The first is general including personal protective equipment like face masks
• The second is for ventilators. I guess that manufacturing quickly in the UK is what they're most interested in; there is a "where" box next to each item on the second form.

Goods and Services Assistance: COVID-19 - smartsurvey.co.uk/s/l5b32s or

bit.ly/covidhelpuk

GOODS

• Food
• Hotel Rooms for any use
• Hotel Rooms for lodging
• Manufacturing equipment
• Medical Equipment -
• PPE Medical Equipment -
• Testing equipment Medical Equipment -
• Other Office space for any use
• Warehouse/Industrial space
• Other (please provide a description of these goods):

SERVICES

• Community Support
• Consultancy for Medical Equipment
• Design Consultancy - other
• Construction expertise
• Engineering expertise
• IT services expertise
• Manufacturing expertise
• Medical expertise
• Project management / procurement expertise
• Social Care
• Transport - logistics or courier
• Transport - people
• Other (please provide a description of these services)

VENTILATOR PARTS

https://ventilator.herokuapp.com/ - form; https://engineersassemble.tribe.so/ - end-product spec. 

GOODS

• Do you already produce regulated ventilators that are used in a UK clinical setting i.e. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), approved with a CE mark?
• Have you made parts or systems for ventilators:
• for human use in clinical setting? Yes No
• for use in veterinary setting? Yes No
• use in any other setting? Yes No If you answered yes to any of the above, please provide further details. Please indicate whether you design, manufacture or supply any of the following medical devices or component parts and, if so, where.

Category: Design / Manufacture / Supply / Location

• Air Compressors / Pumps
• Bellows
• Self-inflating bags
• Gas mixing valves
• Pressure Regulators
• Flow Control valves
• Solenoid valves
• Pressure relief valves
• Check valves / one-way valves
• Industrial Automation components (Safety Relays, PLCs)
• Power Supplies
• Electric Motors, and motor controllers
• Linear actuators and controllers
• Tubing and fittings
• Pressure Sensors and Indicators
• Oxygen Sensors and Indicators
• Flow Sensors and Indicators
• Manometers
• Heat and moisture exchanging filters (HMEFs)
• Air Filter, HEPA Filters

SERVICES

6. Please indicate in

• which of the following activities your organisation has relevant skills,
• which is your specialism, and
• where these activities take place.

Category: Relevant skills / Specialism / Location

• Design / specification
• Rapid prototyping
• Manufacturing (manual)
• Manufacturing (automated)
• Machine Shops/sheet metal/tool manufacture
• Pneumatic part manufacturers/suppliers
• Contract/Product Assembly
• Certification/regulation/testing
• Logistics
• Medical Training

7. Please indicate which enabling resources are you able to provide in service of this initiative.

• Suitable space
• Equipment
• Trained personnel
• Other

theengineer.co.uk/uk-government-manufacturers-ventilators-nhs/ - posts in The Engineer independent.co.uk/news/business/coronavirus-ventilators-uk-new-dyson-order-government-shortage-nhs-a9426561.html - post in The Independent mention a GTech contract and that GTech will make the plans open source. Headlines seem to go to party donor Dyson instead.
gtech.co.uk/ventilators
This one from a college doesn't mention a manufacturer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IMaYFNB9tA&feature=emb_rel_end There is also an open source design project in Ireland which I don't understand - it's about slack channels and github for those qualified to help.

https://www.ventilatorchallengeuk.com/
has been promised orders

Party donor James Dyson has been promised orders, with no web page findable yet
https://hexus.net/ce/news/general/141073-everything-know-dyson-covent-ventilator/

V and A misses the lack of a welfare state in Bangladesh

Serious concerns are often raised about exploitative working conditions. End of story.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/w/what-is-ethical-fashion/ - This summery doesn't notice that clothes are made in countries without a welfare state and nobody is doing anything about it! - the nearest they get to a grumble is "Serious concerns are often raised about exploitative working conditions", and then they interview people from a google of "fashion" rather than "manufacturing".

There is nobody on the debating floor who makes clothes in the UK, which is odd in a museum funded by UK taxpayers. So the hosts think it's OK to claim a grant from the Department of Culture Media and Sport of the Arts Council, but don't think it a bit rude to leave out the more important things that taxes pay for when they're choosing guest speakers.

There are no speakers who have ever claimed benefits, or used free schooling or the NHS by the look of it, unless they put that difference between UK production and Bangladeshi production in an entirely separate part of their mind that doesn't talk to the public part.

[first linked 01.06.13]

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Some clothes are made in a welfare state and some are not

Some clothes are made in a welfare state and some are not

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/10/are-british-made-clothes-more-sustainable - Lucy Siegle of The Guardian quotes clothing importers and their commentators to write about British-made clothes. This misses the point that some clothes are made in a welfare state, and some are not. That's more important to me than miles of travel. A BBC exposure of TNS Knitwear of Manchester, a sub-sub-contractor to Primark, shows the staff telling each other how to claim sickness benefit while working. There are free hospitals are within a mile of the factory: miles of travel to a hospital are more important.
http://www.nhs.uk/Service-Search/Hospital/M12-6JR/Results/3/-2.21687746047974/53.4704437255859/7/0?distance=1

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Fashion Week subsidy for the UK, not China

Fashion Week subsidy for the UK, not China. A proposal

The circulation of tax money spent on London Fashion Week should benefit more taxpayers and help rebalance the economy. The money should not just go to big business, London service industries, and Chinese factories. Think of this like a manifesto idea.

Current estimates of where the money goes are based on decades-old figures about how many factories make things in the UK. Now there are less. Other money circulates to PR agents, photographers, and the London parts of international fashion operations. These do not help to rebalance the economy towards the regions and manufacturing.

How?
UK factories should nominate and have their names quoted

Reference requests. Subsidise only the fashion companies that can get a reference from a UK or European factory.

Publish the names of these factories during the fashion week.

Hold the event in Leicester or some town with clothing factories in it and cheap hotels, rather than an expensive and over-crowded town like London.

Who?
Taxpayers pay London Fashion week via the Department for Business and Greater London Authority

London Fashion Week is subsidised by the Department for Business, The Department for Culture, and the Greater London Authority who pay a trade association called British Fashion Council to organise it.

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