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
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Nes Holdings (UK) Limited
- Value
- £372,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Hospital and related services (CPV 85110000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 033219-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Oct 2024
- Published15 Oct 2024Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The RNOH aims to deliver safe, effective, high quality care at all times. However, in relation to medical, and in particular SHO cover, this has become increasingly challenging over the past few years. The Trust’s inability to attract and retain an adequate SHO workforce has resulted in a growing clinical risk for our services which is reflected within the Trust’s Risk Register and compounded by factors such as increasing inpatient acuity and weekend surgical activity. <br/><br/>It has been well recognised for some time that the model for safe medical cover across the Trust needs to be revised and following significant consideration the priority for this identified as safe, reliable out of hours and emergency SHO level cover throughout the whole week. This is perceived to be the safe foundation from which further workforce transformation and remodelling can then be undertaken. <br/><br/>The adoption of a managed contract Resident Doctor model to provide 24 hour cover 7 days a week thr…
About the supplier
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