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
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · NHS Organisation
- Supplier
- Oakfield Psychological Services Limited SME
- Value
- £82,038
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 033906-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Apr 2026
- Published14 Apr 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The provision of a psychological support service for paediatric patients under the agreed Paediatric Speciality Team within the Acute Hospital and/or with long term conditions across these specialities: • Oncology • Diabetes/Endocrine • Neuro/Epilepsy • Gastroenterology The service provides brief emotional wellbeing support and psychoeducational interventions and does not constitute formal psychological therapy or diagnostic psychological treatment. This contract is intended to be awarded to an existing provider following direct award process C. The lifetime value of the contract is approximately £82,038 for a period of eleven months.
About the supplier
Oakfield Psychological Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08360922).