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
- Royal Holloway and Bedford New College · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Siemens Healthcare Limited
- Value
- £2,164,495
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Imaging equipment for medical, dental and veterinary use (CPV 33110000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 028094-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Mar 2025
- Published28 May 2025Published 85 days after the contract date
Description
Awarded to Siemens Healthcare Limited for a 3 Tesla MRI Scanner (Initial Equipment and 12 month warranty period after acceptance testing) for Research Use via a further competition under Lot 1 Magnetic Resonance Equipment, Northwestern Universities Purchasing Consortium Framework Ref: LAB3162NW for High Value Laboratory Equipment.
About the supplier
Siemens Healthcare Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09567186).