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
- Bath and North East Somerset Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Richmond Event Management Ltd SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Health & social care · Miscellaneous health services (CPV 85140000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 004309-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Feb 2021
- Published4 Mar 2021Published 27 days after the contract date
Description
The Council is required to set up mass Lateral Flow Testing (LFT) arrangements as part of the Governments pandemic response. The focus of the community testing is on key staff groups and the wider public to help identify people who were asymptomatic positive cases in order to break the chain of transmission. The Council therefore needs to undertake the urgent procurement off goods and services to set up the testing programme to ensure DHSC requirements are met. REM will be responsible for setting up the sites, procuring the materials (other than the test kits that are provided by the DHSC), sourcing the staff, undertaking training, carrying out the tests and working alongside the authority to help promote and evaluate the work. The aim is to have a first site up and running week commencing 1st March 2021, with two further sites to follow from 10th March 2021. This is subject to regular review. The model will be flexible. The current proposal is for a 3-site model across B&NES, but additional locations will be provided based on demand.
About the supplier
Richmond Event Management Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03231614).