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 Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Dhu Health Care C.I.C.
- Value
- £5,500,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 021856-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Mar 2026
- Published11 Mar 2026Published 8 days after the contract date
Description
The services are provided in a model of local integrated urgent care that enables the rapid assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with urgent care needs in East Leicestershire and Rutland, to meet local demand and reduce the number of patients avoidably attending an ED. The ICB is intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process C, where the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and will likely satisfy the proposed new contract, and the contract is not changing considerably, and the test for considerable change is not met. The approximate lifetime value of the contract is circa £5.5m The dates between which the services are intended to be provided are: 01/04/2026 to 31/03/2028.
About the supplier
Dhu Health Care C.I.C.: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05834163).