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
- The Rotherham Nhs Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Athorpe Health Care Limited SME
- Value
- £1,920,672
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Residential nursing care services (CPV 85144100)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 022580-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Mar 2026
- Published12 Mar 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Provision of a community unit with nursing to support individuals on a short-term basis who either cannot remain at home but do not require consultant led acute care or who are being discharged from acute care but are not yet able to return home. The supplier will work with health and social care providers to support discharge to assess, recovery, rehabilitation and reablement care plans to facilitate independence and enable as many people to return home as is possible. Individual therapy programmes will be formulated with the individual to achieve the following objectives :<br/><br/>• Return home at the earliest opportunity and/or;<br/>• Increase or maintain independence, choice and control and/or;<br/>• Instigate planned treatment and care to manage deterioration in health and wellbeing.<br/><br/>The intention is to award a contract via an existing provider under Direct Award Process C of the Provider Selection Regime.<br/><br/>The lifetime value of the contract is £1,920,672.00.<br…
About the supplier
Athorpe Health Care Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04216853).