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
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Abbott Laboratories Limited
- Value
- £650,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Blood analysis services (CPV 85111810)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 033481-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Nov 2023
- Published13 Nov 2023Published the same day
Description
A direct award for this contract to Abbott will ensure business continuity for the POCT service and In-patient Diabetic Service within Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust (DBTH NHS FT). Due to the current contract, expiring (August 2023) there is insufficient time to complete a full tender process without compromising the current service, which poses a huge patient safety risk. The Abbott glucose and ketone meters are currently in use in approximately 105 clinical areas within DBTH NHS FT, with over 3000 members of staff trained to use the meter. Implementation of a new providers meter would require significant resources in market scoping, middleware procurement, manufacturing lead-time for providing meters, verification of meters, training the workforce, any required changes to patient pathways, consumable management and IT implementation and the resource required to facilitate this. <br/>The duration of the new contract will be for a three-year period from th…
About the supplier
Abbott Laboratories Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00329102).