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 Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Rethink Mental Illness SME
- Value
- £89,107
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 012845-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2025
- Published3 Apr 2025Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board ("the ICB") is directly awarding an interim contract to the existing provider Rethink Mental Illness in accordance with the criteria outlined in Regulation (9) of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 whilst commissioners complete a Provider Selection Regime Most Suitable Provider process. The service is responsible for providing 10 bedded accommodation in a residential area which offers 24-hour support and supervision for service users accepted as being suitable for non-nursing based input, in a homely environment. The input is a recovery-based approach with the aspects of choice, self-determination, personalisation and social inclusion as the paramount philosophies and outputs. The service is provided for ages 18 years+. The service must be CQC registered and is required to have appropriately trained workforce. Using a collaborative, recovery focused, multidisciplinary appro…
About the supplier
Rethink Mental Illness: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01227970).