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 Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Eli Lilly and Company Ltd
- Value
- £1,142,153
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Pharmaceutical products (CPV 33600000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 017857-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Apr 2025
- Published30 Apr 2025Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
Supply of Ixekizumab (Taltz®) to NHS Scotland. The Authority has awarded this framework as a single supplier framework agreement to one (1) Framework Participant.
About the supplier
Eli Lilly and Company Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00284385).