Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Abbott Diagnostics
- Value
- £51,100,135.28
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Pathology services (CPV 85111800)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 000166-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Dec 2024
- Published6 Jan 2025Published 6 days after the contract date
Description
The Health Board wish to apply a modification to the original contract award to add an additional 8 years on to the current contract under the same terms and conditions to extend the contract up to 31st March 2033. The modification will enable the Health Board to undertake an equipment refresh of critical equipment that will put the Health Board services at significant risk if not replaced urgently. This modification is being made under PCR 2015 Regulation 72 (1)(b), to ensure that existing and planned replacement equipment supplied through the Managed Service Contract will provide the stability necessary to support strategic planning including the introduction of the Laboratory Information Management System.
About the supplier
Abbott Diagnostics: every public contract they have won.