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 Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- SRCL Limited t/a Stericycle
- Value
- £180,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Waste, cleaning & environmental · Clinical-waste collection services (CPV 90524100)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 009446-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Mar 2025
- Published14 Mar 2025Published the same day
Description
This notice is made by the Contracting Authority; NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Authority") in compliance with their local standing financial instructions (SFIs) to notify the market of the intention to award a contract to deliver a short term 4 month contract to SRCL Limited t-a Stericycle for Clinical Waste Services. The total contract value for 4 months is £180,000. It is proposed that the term of this new contract will be 4 months, with services running from 1 April 2025. This contract will then revert to a 1 month rolling arrangement to allow for the contract to be extended and ceased as required. The Authority will observe a 10-day standstill from the date of publication of this VEAT, during which the Authority will not enter into any contractual arrangement.
About the supplier
SRCL Limited t/a Stericycle: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03226910).