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
- Manchester City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Morelife (UK) Ltd SME
- Value
- £178,358.33
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Community health services (CPV 85323000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 038726-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Apr 2026
- Published28 Apr 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The Council intend to award the contract via the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 utilising Direct Award process C: The provider performed well over the duration the initial contract following a competitive tender, the contract is coming to an end and the relevant authority wishes to directly award a new contract. As per Reg6 of PSR there is no considerable change to the contract and the contract value of the proposed contract, while over 25% of the original contract value, is less than £500,000 and so permitted under Reg6(10)(b)(ii)
About the supplier
Morelife (UK) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07107520).