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
- King's College London
- Value
- £12,500,000
- 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
- 001750-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Jan 2021
- Published28 Jan 2021Published 20 days after the contract date
Description
The Service will provide diagnostic (RT-PCR) testing for COVID-19 to the population as part of the urgent intervention in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic.
About the supplier
King's College London: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company RC000297).