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
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Xiel Ltd SME
- Value
- £240,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Magnetic resonance scanners (CPV 33113100)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 025514-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Sep 2025
- Published19 Mar 2026Published 170 days after the contract date
Description
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust (the "Trust") awarded a contract via a negotiated procedure without prior publication under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for the provision of a portable low-field (0.064 Tesla) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The contract will also include associated peripherals, training, support and maintenance services for a period of five (5) years.<br/><br/>The MRI scanner will be used for the purpose of accelerating and developing local place-based neuroimaging research into the process of assessment and diagnosis of dementia, in which timely access to neuroimaging is frequently a rate-limiting step. The scanner will also be available for researchers addressing other mental health disorders, such as research aligned to the new Kent Complex Psychosis Service and investigation of non-dementia mental illness in older and younger adults.<br/><br/>A key focus will be to aid the development of new AI algorithms in the assessment of structural c…
About the supplier
Xiel Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11875702).