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 Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Primary Eyecare Services Ltd
- Value
- £10,011,609
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 024501-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Mar 2026
- Published18 Mar 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB intend to award a 2 year contract with an option to extend for 1 year via Direct Award C to the incumbent provider to deliver: Community Urgent Eyecare (CUES) in St Helens, Warrington, Knowsley, Halton, Sefton, Cheshire East and Cheshire West Glaucoma Referral Refinement (GRR) in St Helens, Halton, Sefton, Cheshire East and Liverpool Pre-Cataract Operation Assessment Services in St Helens, Halton, Sefton and Cheshire East Single Point of Access triage service across Cheshire & Merseyside ICB area. The contract will start on the 1st of April 2026, expire on 31st March 2028, with an option to extend for 1 year with a revised expiry date of 31st March 2029. The contract has an annual contract value of £3,337,203.
About the supplier
Primary Eyecare Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06722353).