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 England · Body governed by public law
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Services provided by medical laboratories (CPV 85145000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 026300-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Mar 2026
- Published23 Mar 2026Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
Pursuant to the NHS Newborn Blood Spot in-service evaluation (ISE) for Severe Combined Immuno-Deficiency (SCID) contracts, with the addition of the ISE for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the providers are to provide the following functions:<br/><br/>• Specialist scientific and clinical workforce required to deliver assurance, quality oversight, and programme reporting.<br/>• Laboratory capacity and turnaround requirements to support in‑service evaluation activity alongside existing SCID delivery.<br/>• Quality assurance and quality control processes, including maintenance of consistent methodologies, validation status, and reporting standards.<br/>• Information governance, data management, and secure data flows required to support national screening evaluation and reporting.<br/>• Programme management and coordination activity necessary to support continuity and comparability of in‑service evaluation outputs.<br/><br/>The Commissioner intends to award contracts following the Most Suit…
About the supplier
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00130126).