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
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- St Andrews Healthcare
- Value
- £2,562,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Psychiatric hospital services (CPV 85111500)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 033082-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2024
- Published15 Oct 2024Published 197 days after the contract date
Description
Urgent requirement to provide Male PICU and Acute Mental Health Inpatient Beds to ensure in-county bed availability following he cessation of services at the relevant authorities unit. The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable by and is not attributable to the relevant authority. The relevant authority has awarded this contract under the Direct Award Process A - Urgent situation (F03) under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
About the supplier
St Andrews Healthcare: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05176998).