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 Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Urban Challenge Ltd SME
- Value
- £473,514
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 016887-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Apr 2025
- Published24 Apr 2025Published the same day
Description
NHS Lincolnshire ICB is intending to utilise direct award process C of the Provider Selection Regime regulations to award a contract for the provision of: - Primary Care Social Prescribing The contract duration is from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026 and the expected value of activity for the lifetime of the contract is £473,514. The provider is an existing provider and the services are existing services.
About the supplier
Urban Challenge Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03438413).