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 Sussex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £202,350
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Miscellaneous health services (CPV 85140000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 021070-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Mar 2026
- Published9 Mar 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The Bereaved By Suicide services are designed to: rapidly deliver psychosocial wellbeing support to adults bereaved by suspected suicide in B&H, following notification by the Sussex Police Real Time Surveillance System to a central Sussex single point of access for suicide bereavement. Survivors of Suicide - SOS service delivers psychosocial wellbeing support to adults in Brighton & Hove who experience suicidality and/or have been bereaved by suicide at any time in their life. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice (Direct Award Process C). The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be submitted to the relevant authority via email to: robert.…
About the supplier
Rethink Mental Illness Brighton and Hove: every public contract they have won.