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
- The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Sword IT Solutions SME
- Value
- £372,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 008129-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Mar 2025
- Published6 Mar 2025Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
Extension of NPCCD (National Primary Care Clinician Database) contract for a period of 12 months using Regulation 72(1)(b). NPCCD (National Primary Care Clinician Database) is managed by Practitioner Services Division, National Services Scotland on behalf of NHS Scotland Health Boards. The system is an essential management of contractor data in compliance with Scottish Government regulations outlined in The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004. This is a critical part of daily operations for the Health Boards ensuring that all contractors are validated and meet the necessary standards and qualifications to provide primary care services. The initial contract was awarded under an NSS Software Development framework. The contract awarded as a result of a Mini competition included an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) clause that indicated that anything developed as a result of the work would remain in the ownership of NSS. This ex…
About the supplier
Sword IT Solutions: every public contract they have won.