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
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- YMCA Norfolk
- Value
- £63,827
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 018473-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Dec 2025
- Published2 Mar 2026Published 68 days after the contract date
Description
The Crisis Wellbeing Practitioner will provide in reach support to CAIST with an aim of preventing escalation into acute crisis by working with young people presenting with increased suicide risk but with no immediate threat to life. Intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C; The approximate lifetime value of the contract is £63,827 Services are intended to be provided from 1st January 2026 to 31st March 2027
About the supplier
YMCA Norfolk: every public contract they have won.