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
- The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £400,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Blood products (CPV 33141510)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 037711-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Dec 2023
- Published21 Dec 2023Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of a Homecare Delivery Service to deliver Clotting Factors to patients in NHS Scotland. This includes the dispensing and delivery of the prescribed medicines along with ancillary products, as required, to patients in their homes or other agreed designated delivery points, and to provide removal of sharps containers as detailed within the specification contained within the tender documentation. The framework agreement was awarded as a unranked multi-supplier framework two (2) suppliers.
About the suppliers
Healthcare at Home Ltd: every public contract they have won.
LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare: every public contract they have won.