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 Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Birches Head Medical Centre - Dr Vellaturi SME
- Value
- £90,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · General-practitioner services (CPV 85121100)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 037283-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2026
- Published23 Apr 2026Published 22 days after the contract date
Description
This Intention to Award Notice is issued in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Regulation 9, Direct Award C. The Procurement relates to the provision of GP Services at Marrow House. NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB) currently holds a contract with the Birches Head Medical Centre for the provision of GP Services at Marrow House. This service provides dedicated GP support 5-days a week to 21 beds at Marrow House, Longton for older people with mental health needs - primarily dementia. The ICB is satisfied that the requirements for the provision of health care services are not changing considerably, i.e., they don't meet the considerable change threshold as set out in Regulation 6 (10). The intention is to award a contract to the Birches Head Medical Centre, the existing provider, via the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Regulation 9, Direct Award C. The contract period sha…
About the supplier
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