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 South East London Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Express Diagnostics Ltd SME
- Value
- £1,436,850
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 023573-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Feb 2026
- Published16 Mar 2026Published 25 days after the contract date
Description
Key Criteria 1. Quality and Innovation: 25% 2. Value for Money: 25% 3. Integration, Collaboration, and Service Sustainability: 15% 4. Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities, and Facilitating Choice: 20% 5. Social Value: 15% The criteria were applied with their respective weightings as specified, with scoring against a number of sub-categories for each criteria..
About the supplier
Express Diagnostics Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02958269).