Contraceptive companies, CMSS spar over tenders

New Delhi: India’s flagship household planning programme is prone to get severely affected with the nation’s central procurement company (CPA), the Central Medical Companies Society (CMSS), set as much as streamline the procurement course of, failing to supply contraceptives in a well timed method.

The All India Condom Producer Affiliation, which incorporates varied corporations that manufacture condom model Nirodh, has written to the federal government highlighting haphazard dealing with of procurement by CMSS after it cancelled the condom tenders twice within the present 12 months.

“Currently, we’ve got seen there was a sample of delays in procuring household planning contraceptives together with condoms and hormonal contraceptives utilized by ladies. To our utter shock, the tenders have been cancelled after a number of rounds of negotiations,” stated a senior govt with an organization that provides condoms and hormonal contraceptives for the ministry’s household planning programme.

When requested Rajesh Gupta, DG and CEO of CMSS stated: “All the things is okay and there’s no such concern.” An in depth e-mail in search of clarification despatched to the well being ministry didn’t elicit any response.

Of their letter to the well being ministry final month, the condom producer affiliation highlighted the irregular floating of tenders and their cancellation on the last stage.

“The producers of condoms, specifically, are going through extreme issues of this haphazard dealing with of procurement by CMSS, which isn’t solely a set again to your complete trade of condom manufacturing however can also be adversely affecting the household welfare programme of the federal government,” it stated,Within the present 12 months the condom tenders have already been cancelled twice. “That is resulting in extreme setbacks, significantly to small-scale producers. As a result of such advert hoc dealing with of tender work, a lot of the established condom producers like TTK, JK Ansel, and so forth. have virtually kept away from collaborating within the condom tenders of CMSS,” the letter additional stated.The social advertising and marketing organisations (SMO), which purchase condoms from the ministry to provide them within the hinterland to spice up its utilization, say that they’re already going through shortages and in some areas the household planning programme has been disrupted.

“We had requested for 20 million items of condoms in Could and are nonetheless ready for the provides. We do not have sufficient stock and have already written to the federal government for getting the provides,” stated a chief supervisor with a non-government organisation.