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 North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Gap Kare Limited SME
- Value
- £0.01
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Residential nursing care services (CPV 85144100)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 008173-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Jan 2025
- Published6 Mar 2025Published 57 days after the contract date
Description
The Provision of Social, Personal & Nursing Care for Adults within their own homes (Domiciliary Care). NENC ICB intends to award a contract to a new provider, following Urgent Award Process. Contract has a zero expected annual contract value and is paid on a cost per case basis as it is for an individual client package. The relevant authority intends to award this contract under the urgent circumstances provision 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. Contract has a zero expected annual contract value and is paid on a cost per case basis as it is for an individual client package. Contract Start Date: 14 October 2024 Contract End Date: 13 October 2025
About the supplier
Gap Kare Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13307550).