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 Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Primary Eyecare Services Limited
- Value
- £650,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 018014-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Jan 2025
- Published30 Apr 2025Published 90 days after the contract date
Description
THIS IS A CONTRACT MODIFICATION NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has approved a modification to a contract that was awarded under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The existing contract to deliver Community Urgent Eyecare Services in St Helens, Knowsley, Halton & Warrington and Glaucoma Referral Refinement Service & Pre-Cataract Operation Assessment Services in St Helens & Halton started on 1st April 2023 and expired on 31st March 2025 with an option to extend for 12 months. This modification enacts the 12 month extension to the contract term, with the modified expiry date being 31st March 2026. The original contract value was based on cost per case with an indicative value of £1,250,000 and the modification annual contract value is £650,000.
About the supplier
Primary Eyecare Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06722353).