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
- Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust · NHS Foundation Trust
- Supplier
- Priory Healthcare
- Value
- £200,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Psychiatric hospital services (CPV 85111500)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 002048-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Dec 2024
- Published21 Jan 2025Published 42 days after the contract date
Description
Inpatients services for an LSU patient paid on a cost by case basis, including any exceptional packages of care. Contract award allows for additional admissions due to unavailability of local beds. Additional information: Contract must end 31st March 2025 and be reprocured if patient(s) remain in service on 1st April 2025.
About the supplier
Priory Healthcare: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06244860).