Contract award · 1 Apr 2025

Primary Care support to the stop smoking service

Darlington Borough Council awarded “Primary Care support to the stop smoking service” to Primary Healthcare Darlington Limited for £42,145.

No competitionHealth & social careNorth East

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.

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Key facts

Buyer
Darlington Borough Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£42,144.92
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date1 Apr 2025
  2. Published13 May 2025Published 42 days after the contract date

Description

Primary Healthcare Darlington is the GP Federation and has well established links to all 11 GO Practices in the borough, which will assist the Primary Care Champion to support Practices to make referrals to the Stop Smoking Service. This also facilities a prescribing approval process for patients registered at Darlington GP Practices to receive pharmacotherapy support to assist their quit attempt.

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