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
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Doccla UK Limited SME
- Value
- £129,729.80
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Patient-monitoring system (CPV 33195000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 008364-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Mar 2025
- Published7 Mar 2025Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (“SCFT”) and East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trusts (“ESHT”) (the “Authority”) issued an Invitation to Tender ("ITT") to procure a new remote monitoring solution (RMS) to support their virtual health programme.<br/><br/>The procurement was a further competition under the Shared Business Services Technology Enabled Care Services 2 (SBS10144) Framework, Lot 1 Remote Clinical Monitoring.<br/><br/>The programme is seeking to build on the existing remote monitoring capacity to support an increased number of patients at multiple levels of acuity and therefore a flexible contractual model that allows ramping up and down of concurrent bed capacity is preferred. Some key additional detail about the Sussex model is provided below:<br/><br/>• Pathways: the current solution covers Respiratory, Frailty and Heart Failure pathways. Over the course of the contract with the incoming supplier, the intention is to extend this solution also to support patients on Maternit…
About the supplier
Doccla UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 12206481).