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
- Department of Health and Social Care · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- SureScreen Diagnostics Ltd SME
- Value
- £6,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Diagnostic kits (CPV 33141625)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 000522-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Dec 2020
- Published11 Jan 2021Published 39 days after the contract date
Description
Manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for Sars-Covid-2, with the option to purchase further tests.
About the supplier
SureScreen Diagnostics Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03235601).