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 Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Restful Homes (Solihull) Ltd
- Value
- £286,203
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Residential nursing care services (CPV 85144100)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 005428-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Jan 2024
- Published19 Feb 2024Published 40 days after the contract date
Description
Urgent circumstances provision was applied in line with the regulations due to increasing additional unpredicted demand and activity within the urgent care system, which is over and above predicted modelling and the commissioned services' capacity. The contract is for specialist dementia care home beds to discharge patients from 10th January 2024. The additonal beds were required to be available same and next day onwards to support hospital flow within to enable the best outcome for patients who are medically fit to be discharged from hospital and for patients who require admission to hospital. The provider has previously held an EAB bed contract and has been through assurance processes and can be safely stood up within required timeframes (same and next day)
About the supplier
Restful Homes (Solihull) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 12125824).