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
- Source Bioscience Limited SME
- Value
- £7,610,000
- 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
- 002267-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Jan 2021
- Published4 Feb 2021Published 24 days after the contract date
Description
Urgent requirement to develop volume for PCR testing for COVID in line with test and trace requirements
About the supplier
Source Bioscience Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00079136).