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
- Public Health England · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Tasso Incorporation
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Venepuncture, blood sampling devices (CPV 33141300)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 001408-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Nov 2020
- Published22 Jan 2021Published 64 days after the contract date
Description
PHE is conducting a range of sero-surveillance activities for COVID-19. PHE has been requested as an urgent priority to estimate the proportion of university students that have antibodies given the outbreaks experienced in some sites. This valuable information will allow us to understand the extent of spread in university settings, the risk of future outbreaks and will inform outbreak management in 2021.
About the supplier
Tasso Incorporation: every public contract they have won.