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
- NHS England · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- University College London Ucl SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 035862-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Jun 2025
- Published27 Jun 2025Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
Clinical databases are important to specialised service commissioning because population is a requirement of specialised providers (via clinical service specifications) and, in some cases, the clinical databases / registries hold clinical details not located in other information systems, aiding identification of specialised service activity.<br/><br/>The Children’s HIV and AIDS Reporting System collects and processes long term follow-up paediatric HIV data for all children living with HIV in England until transition to adult care. The purpose of CHARS is:<br/><br/>• To provide data for public health surveillance of HIV infections among children living with HIV <br/>• To monitor the quality of care of children living with HIV until transition to adult services, including producing quality of care indicators <br/>• To support NHS commissioning services CHARS launched in 2022 and continues paediatric surveillance carried out by the Collaborative HIV Paediatric Study (CHIPS) based at UCL …
About the supplier
University College London Ucl: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company RC000631).