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
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Micropathology Limited SME
- Value
- £123,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Pathology services (CPV 85111800)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 016516-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Feb 2026
- Published24 Feb 2026Published the same day
Description
Micropathology Ltd provide GHFT a testing service for virology/bacterial request by PCR/serology/sequencing and the reporting of these results.<br/><br/>GHFT are intending to award a contract to Mircropathology Ltd who is the existing provider, by following Direct Award C of the PSR<br/>The approximate lifetime value of the contract is £123,000<br/>The contract covers 08.09.2025 until 07.09.2028
About the supplier
Micropathology Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03022426).