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
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Priory Group
- Value
- £355,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Psychiatric hospital services (CPV 85111500)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 005572-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Feb 2024
- Published20 Feb 2024Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
Mental Health Acute in-patient beds: This contract has been awarded using Direct Award Criteria A from the Provider Selection Regime. To comply with NHSE Continuity of Care Principles, providers must be within the geographical footprint that would usually meet the service users needs (Norfolk and Waveney). The preferred supplier is a provider of acute mental health inpatient care within the Trust footprint, mitigating against the need to send patients out of area. This contract award is for an interim period until the end of March 2024, whilst other procurement activity and on site construction at Hellesdon Hospital continues. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. Conflicts of interest identified among …
About the supplier
Priory Group: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04433255).