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 Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cardiff University
- Value
- £1,448,483
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Education & training · Adult-education services at university level (CPV 80430000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 016773-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2022
- Published13 Jun 2023Published 255 days after the contract date
Description
There is a requirement to safely and effectively fully implement the new 2021 General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) initial education training standards for pharmacists by 2026. Major reforms brought by GPhC to undergraduate training of Pharmacists which will produce pharmacists with enhanced clinical skills and independent prescribing (IP) status. This mandated change requires a safe and effective change management programme process. The Services to which this Notice relates fall within Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Regulations).
About the supplier
Cardiff University: every public contract they have won.