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
- Lothian Health Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Abbott Laboratories Ltd
- Value
- £3,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Laboratory services (CPV 71900000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 033429-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date9 Apr 2026
- Published13 Apr 2026Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
Lothian Health Board (more commonly known as NHS Lothian) requires a managed service solution for its core molecular testing capacity for a contract period of 3 years. The Supplier will assume responsibility for the guaranteed availability of the managed service solution through the provision and management including maintenance.
About the supplier
Abbott Laboratories Ltd: every public contract they have won.