Judge: Tender corona rapid tests for test events can go ahead | Inland

That test company, Lead Healthcare, was commissioned by the Open Netherlands Foundation and would therefore have already gained a lot of experience and built up testing capacity, which would have given it a head start on the other companies. The deadline for applications expires on Friday afternoon at 12:00 noon and concerns contracts for administering access tests from 1 May.

The companies that initiated summary proceedings let it be known in a response that they were not surprised by the ruling. “The State chooses to ignore these entrepreneurs who have all been working hard for months to provide anyone with corona tests.” In addition, the plaintiffs call the procurement policy of rapid tests by the government opaque. They also say that society will eventually have to pay the bill for this through taxation.

Topman Rasmus Emmelkamp of Spoedtest.nl, one of the complaining parties, says that he is taking part in the tender despite the decision. Emmelkamp, ​​who runs 69 commercial corona rapid test locations in the Netherlands, believes that he has an obligation to the approximately 500 people who work for him. “If I say very rigidly ‘I am not participating’, they have no work.”

The summary proceedings were heard by the judge in Amsterdam on Thursday. Due to the urgent nature of the matter, the court has now rendered a so-called head-tail judgment. This means that it is only disclosed which decision the judge has taken. The precise reasons for this will follow later.

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