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
- Salford City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- LGBT Foundation SME
- Value
- £60,614
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 029739-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Mar 2026
- Published31 Mar 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The chemsex support pilot is a public health service that falls within the scope of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR). The Council intends to make the award under Regulation 14 (Urgent Award). This permits an urgent direct award where the Council considers that: i. The award must be made urgently; ii. The urgency was not reasonably foreseeable and is not attributable to delay by the Council; and iii. Delaying the award would be likely to pose a risk to patient or public safety. Based on the information provided by Public Health, and the evidence set out in the Record of Decision Making document, these conditions are met, as the escalation in chemsex-related harms only recently became visible to the Council and further delay would increase risk to individuals
About the supplier
LGBT Foundation: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03476576).