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 Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £1,240,800
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Optician services (CPV 85160000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 028962-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Mar 2026
- Published30 Mar 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The Community Urgent Eyecare Service will provide timely access to care in a community setting for patients in East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull who have urgent or minor eye conditions. The service will assess and manage patients with recent and significant changes or the onset of such changes in eye conditions based on the following presenting conditions: • Dry eye (lasting longer than 2 weeks after seeing a pharmacist and trying home treatments) • Red eye with pain • Photophobia • Painful eye • Flashes and new floaters • Blurry vision • Diplopia • Distorted vision • Sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes • Symptomatic field loss • Flashes and floaters • In growing eyelash(es) • Non-penetrating foreign body The service will be delivered through local optometry practices and supported by independent prescribing optometrists. NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB are intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C of The Health Care Services (Provide…
About the supplier
Primary Eyecare (North Yorkshire and Humber) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08669793).