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 Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Alzheimer's Society SME
- Value
- £285,237
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Community health services (CPV 85323000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 008401-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Jan 2025
- Published7 Mar 2025Published 44 days after the contract date
Description
This Intention to Award Notice is issued in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The Procurement relates to the provision of the Dementia Link Workers Service. NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board (NHS STW) currently holds a contract with Alzheimer's Society for this service and anticipates no change to the current service provision. The Alzheimer's Society provides the Dementia Link Workers (DLWs) service across NHS STW as part of an ongoing programme of transformation work led by the NHS STW Dementia Steering Group and forms part of the NHS STW Dementia Vision. The model aims to provide people living with dementia, their families and unpaid carers, with the support and resources they need in order to live their life to its fullest and as they choose to. Aspects of this work include: • Provision of peer support groups. • Create opportunities to meet other people with dementia and their partners and families • Connec…
About the supplier
Alzheimer's Society: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02115499).