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
- NHS Golden Jubilee · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Zimmer Ltd
- Value
- £60,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (CPV 33000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 004209-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Jan 2021
- Published3 Mar 2021Published 40 days after the contract date
Description
The Golden Jubilee Hospital intends to enter in a 12 month lease agreement with Zimmer Biomet as being the only option available to meet our requirements. In accordance with our interpretation of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 the required equipment capability can only be provided by the particular provider for technical reasons due to the unique essential requirements of the equipment namely, Zimmer Biomet is currently the only commercially available robotic assisted orthopaedic surgical systems that offers an image-less total knee Replacement, using a robotically assisted cutting block. No other commercially available product facilitate the multidisciplinary applications planned for use at the Golden Jubilee Hospital.
About the supplier
Zimmer Ltd: every public contract they have won.