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
- Eurofins Biomnis UK Limited
- Value
- £58,800,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Services provided by medical laboratories (CPV 85145000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 000809-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2020
- Published14 Jan 2021Published 105 days after the contract date
Description
Collection, Identification, Packing and Transporting to the Laboratories for Wet Swab PCR Testing and analysis for Covid-19, includes subsequent variations to include REACT Wave 7 and Waste Water Testing
About the supplier
Eurofins Biomnis UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07277695).