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 National Services Scotland · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Berry Bpi SME
- Value
- £749,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Textiles, plastics & rubber · Polythene waste and refuse sacks and bags (CPV 19640000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 037667-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Nov 2023
- Published21 Dec 2023Published 21 days after the contract date
Description
The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as National Services Scotland) (“the Authority”) acting through its division National Procurement, is undertaking this procurement of general and clinical waste bags on behalf of All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Authority or other NHS Organisation established pursuant to the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978), any integrated Joint Boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014, together with independent contractors to NHS Scotland such as dentists, general medical practitioners, pharmacists, opticians etc and all other bodies governed by Public Law in Scotland.
About the supplier
Berry Bpi: every public contract they have won.