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
- RPS Service Ltd SME
- Value
- £448,308
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · X-ray devices (CPV 33111000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 001891-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Dec 2020
- Published29 Jan 2021Published 53 days after the contract date
Description
This procurement is for the provision of 2 X-Ray Irradiators. The equipment will enable PHE to produce high fidelity reagents for the COVID-19 response such as high-quality SARS-CoV-2 reference virus and RNA extractable material for the assessment of lateral flow rapid tests (‘Operation Moonshot’) and the Lighthouse laboratories for COVID-19 diagnosis respectively.
About the supplier
RPS Service Ltd: every public contract they have won.