Operation Warp Speed Contracts
8 detailing some of its deals made through operation warp speed the trump administrations program to expedite development of covid 19 vaccine and therapeutics.
Operation warp speed contracts. In july pfizer got a 195 billion deal with the governments operation warp speed the multiagency effort to rush a vaccine to market to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccine. Hhs released several documents nov. One reason is that operation warp speed is issuing billions of dollars worth of coronavirus vaccine contracts to companies through a nongovernment intermediary bypassing the regulatory oversight. Hhs also released a new more transparent version of its 15 billion contract with.
Cnn operation warp speed the federal governments covid 19 vaccine program on tuesday announced the largest government covid 19 vaccine contract to date a 16 billion contract with. Operation warp speed ows is the public face of the. To add operation warp speed the government modified the agreement adding more money and contract terms. Dod and hhs announced a 138 million contract with apiject for more than 100 million prefilled syringes for distribution across the united states by year end 2020 as well as the development of manufacturing capacity for the ultimate production goal of over 500 million prefilled syringes in 2021.
In part its because of the way many operation warp speed contracts have been executed with their terms largely invisible to the public. The contract is the largest yet under the trump administrations operation warp speed. Billions of dollars worth of coronavirus vaccine contracts have avoided usual mechanisms of transparency and regulatory oversight with operation warp speed the trump administrations project to.