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
- Kent County Council · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £21,898,681
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Community health services (CPV 85323000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 009919-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Feb 2026
- Published4 Feb 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The Direct Award C covers the procurement of the School Health Service. The key objectives of the School Health service are to: oImprove health and reduce health inequalities through the delivery of targeted and progressive element of the Healthy Child programme 5 -19. odelivering interventions which improve health and wellbeing of children and families. oImprove health and wellbeing of children and their families. oProvide a responsive service that meets user needs. oIndividual health and wellbeing interventions and support to address identified public health needs of children and young people, enabling them to stay healthy and support them to learn. oIdentifying children’s needs, signposting to appropriate services, and providing health promotion messages and targeted evidence-based interventions. This plays a vital part in the reduction of child health inequalities through a holistic approach to identifying and addressing the health needs of children. Conflicts of interest were man…
About the supplier
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00922986).