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
- Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board (ICB) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Individual supplier
- Value
- £263,198
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Dental practice and related services (CPV 85130000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 032712-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Jun 2025
- Published16 Jun 2025Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board (ICB) is looking to continue Unscheduled Dental Care (UDC) with the current provider in Berkshire. The term of the existing Unscheduled Dental Care (UDC) contract is due to expire on 31st March 2026 and BOB ICB has proposed that a new contract should replace that existing contract at the end of its term. All requirements outlined in Regulation 6(5) of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 have been met, including not breaching the considerable change threshold, and therefore direct award process C has been deemed the appropriate provider selection process. After conducting an assessment of the incumbent provider, taking into account the key criteria and applying the basic selection criteria, NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB is content that the existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a suffi…