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
- The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Ilasco Limited SME, Redwood TTM
- Value
- £1,660,210
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Medical consumables (CPV 33140000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 000749-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Dec 2020
- Published14 Jan 2021Published 24 days after the contract date
Description
This is a directly awarded contract between the Authority on behalf of NHS Scotland to meet the additional demands of the Scottish Health and Social Care sector during the current Covid-19 pandemic. This award has been approved on the basis of these being additional supplies from the original supplier as any product change at this time would cause unnecessary disruption to the Authority> in line with Regulation 33(1)(b) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
About the suppliers
Ilasco Limited: every public contract they have won.
Redwood TTM: every public contract they have won.