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 Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- 3Sixty Care Partnership SME
- Value
- £600,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 025380-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Oct 2025
- Published19 Mar 2026Published 145 days after the contract date
Description
Additional primary care capacity of an average of 170 appointments per day from Monday to Friday commencing on 1st December for a thirteen-week period. The additional capacity is to be focused on but not exclusive to acute respiratory infection presenting patients. The solution must ensure access within a reasonable geographic distance and align with existing GP Extended Access provision . This notice is confirmation of an award having been made due to an urgent circumstance (i.e. that this is an urgent award). The lifetime value of the contract is £600,000. Contract commencement was 24th October 2025 to allow time for mobilisation. The service commenced on the 1st December 2025 until the 1st March 2026. Northamptonshire collective at scale providers for primary care services are able to work collaboratively through contract awarded to 3Sixty Care to ensure delivery to specification and timescales can be achieved. This would not be possible through existing individual primary care pro…
About the supplier
3Sixty Care Partnership: every public contract they have won.