Feds seek logistics company to handle huge PPE imports

The Public Health Agency of Canada is looking for a company that can store and ship the government’s big orders of personal protective equipment amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Procurement Minister Anita Anand is leading the government's effort to buy up personal protective equipment for the provinces and territories in what Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has called a 'wild west' environment for global procurement amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 27, 2020

The federal government is looking for a business partner to handle the distribution of hundreds of shipping containers worth of personal protective equipment at a time, as it seeks to ramp up imports of equipment needed to fight the novel coronavirus.

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