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 Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Quantum IT Europe Ltd
- Value
- £200,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Database-management system (CPV 48612000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 023512-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Apr 2025
- Published21 May 2025Published 35 days after the contract date
Description
This is a Contract Award Notice to communicate the contract awarded by the Authority to Quantum IT for the provision of a CPMS. Across the system there are inconsistent processes for the management of non-medical practice placements (nursing, midwifery and AHP's), resulting in lack of organisational and system oversight of placement utilisation, learner numbers and student tariff. To ensure MSE ICS can work towards the CLE Strategy and Long-Term Workforce Plan a systematic approach needs to occur. The Authority aims to move to a system wide Centralised Placement Management System (CPMS), that would hold and manage all non-medical learner data, whilst effectively co-ordinating and managing placement processes. Each organisation would continue to manage and hold responsibility for their own placements and utilisation of the database, yet the system wide overview will ensure effective wider collaboration of placement utilisation and recruitment could occur. Without collaboration, organis…
About the supplier
Quantum IT Europe Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07308632).