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
- Genomics England Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Illumina Cambridge Ltd
- Value
- £4,670,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Services provided by medical laboratories (CPV 85145000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 032387-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Jun 2025
- Published13 Jun 2025Published the same day
Description
Genomics England ("the Contracting Authority") was established in 2013 to make the UK the world leader in the application of genomics in healthcare in partnership with NHS England. The Contracting Authority has a contractual relationship with Illumina Cambridge Limited ("Illumina") for WGS Services. The contract was entered into on 1 November 2019 ("Agreement") by direct award and in reliance on Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Contracting Authority determined through considerable due diligence and assessment of the options available, to issue a transparency notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, for the Agreement for reasons of technical skills required being limited to one supplier. The VEAT notice was issued on 20 September 2019 with reference number GeL-CR-101-19. The Contracting Authority is now granting a term extension and variation to the Agreement to Illumina to enable the NHS to transition to distributed WGS in 2026, to assist in the…
About the supplier
Illumina Cambridge Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03625145).