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
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Medinet Clinical Services Ltd
- Value
- £415,376
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Dermatology services (CPV 85121282)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 007769-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Mar 2025
- Published4 Mar 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
2gether Support Solutions, on behalf of the Contracting Authority is intending to award a 12 months contract for the provision of insourced Dermatology related clinical services under Regulation 9 (Direct Award Process C) of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, i.e., the term of the existing contract is due to expire and the Contracting Authority proposes a new contract to replace that existing contract at the end of its term, the proposed contracting arrangements are not changing considerably and that the Contracting Authority is of the view that the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard.<br/><br/>The contract shall include the provision of Dermatology / Skin Cancer minor operation related services at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury, Kent to support the Contracting Authority with recovering its waiting lists position.
About the supplier
Medinet Clinical Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00990952).