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
- Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £20,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Pharmacy services (CPV 85149000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 031634-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date9 Jun 2025
- Published11 Jun 2025Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
The ICB has experienced a number of practices serving notice on the prescribing of Adult ADHD medication (and are following suit on paediatric ADHD medication prescribing). The intention was that these patients would return to the specialist service that prescribed the medication originally in order to get their ongoing care. However, in the medium term it is apparent that those service providers will not be able to scale up at pace to meet the increased demand. As an interim solution we will commission ADHD Shared Care Prescribing Service to Thrive Health Hubs Trading as Thurrock Health Hubs to deliver the service from 15th June 2025 to 31st March 2026. The indicative value of the contract is £20,000 for the period. The award is being made urgently in order to provide continuity of care. There is significant risk that if this award was not made there would be an impact on this cohort of patients to their health. The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable by and is not attributabl…
About the supplier
Thrive Health Hubs Limited (trading as Thurrock Health Hubs): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09003284).