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 Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Health Now Limited SME
- Value
- £131,220
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 037319-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Jul 2025
- Published4 Jul 2025Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
Value GBP 131,220 (Zero Vat) Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) requires an insourced provision within the speciality of Radiology (Vascular Tech, Obstetric and Non-obstetric ultrasound). The aim of this contract focuses upon ensuring SBUHB achieve Ministerial Targets to support reduction in waiting list initiatives (WLI). Associated with long waiting patients. Vascular Lab services have resource implications which are detrimentally impacting on service provision. Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) will enter into a contract with Health Now via direct award under the Countess of Chester On-site Surgical and Medical Capacity Solutions Framework,Ref - F/044/OSMCS/21/IB. Medacs, SBU’s managed service provider for agency Doctors have been unable to supply any sonographers with the required DQAS qualification which is required to work in Wales for obstetric examinations. Expected service start date will be immediately in July 2025.
About the supplier
Health Now Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13335901).