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 Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · NHS
- Supplier
- Babylon Partners Limited
- Value
- £4,200,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Miscellaneous health services (CPV 85140000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 000851-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Jan 2021
- Published15 Jan 2021Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
RWT sought to enter into some form of longer term partnering arrangement as a means to develop digital service delivery solutions to its population. After market research RWT began discussions with Babylon, identifying it as the only provider of these kinds of solutions available on the market at the scale it desired. As a result, RWT took the decision to negotiate and finalise the Agreement with Babylon directly without undertaking a competitive procurement process on the basis of a negotiated procedure without prior publication under Reg 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, on the grounds set out in Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) (competition being absent for technical reasons). Details of the Agreement are set out in Section II.4 above.
About the supplier
Babylon Partners Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08493276).