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
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Whitstable Medical Practice SME
- Value
- £247,821
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Surgical hospital services (CPV 85111100)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 034926-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Jun 2025
- Published25 Jun 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
2gether Support Solutions, on behalf of the contracting Authority, is intending to award a contract for the provision of elective care services under Regulation 9 (Direct Award Process C) of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, i.e., the existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard.<br/><br/>The provision of elective care services include:<br/><br/>i) urology cystoscopy with in-house support;<br/>ii) urology lower urinary tract symptoms outpatient appointments with cystoscopy procedures; and<br/>iii) gynaecology hysteroscopy procedures with histology support.<br/><br/>The proposed contract shall commence from 8th July 2025 for a period of up to nine months, to 31st March 2026.
About the supplier
Whitstable Medical Practice: every public contract they have won.