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
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Accuray Europe sas
- Value
- £194,769
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Radiotherapy supplies (CPV 33151400)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 012004-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Apr 2023
- Published26 Apr 2023Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
The Cyberknife machine and planning system service contract have to be provided by Accuray<br/>(the manufacturer of the equipment and associated software) as it is bespoke, extremely<br/>specialist equipment manufactured by Accuray. There is no other company that can provide<br/>the CE marked replacement parts, software upgrades and bug fixes, whose engineers are<br/>trained on the specific maintenance of this equipment in order to plan and deliver radiation<br/>safely and correctly to the patient.
About the supplier
Accuray Europe sas: every public contract they have won.