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 Devon Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Step One Charity
- Value
- £2,349,136
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 030325-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Dec 2022
- Published13 Oct 2023Published 291 days after the contract date
Description
This contract is for the provision of inpatient beds to support patients with mental health issues in crisis to avoid admission to an acute setting and to support patients before they transfer to community care support. This contract term is from the 1st of April 2022 to the 31st of March 2024, with a total value of £2,349,136 GBP over the term. Additional information: The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).
About the supplier
Step One Charity: every public contract they have won.