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 Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £358,668,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 038949-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Jun 2025
- Published10 Jul 2025Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
PAH is an existing provider of health care services to which the proposed contract relates to. The contracting authority is satisfied that the health care services to which the proposed contracting arrangements relate can only be provided by the existing provider (or group of providers) due to the acute nature of the health care services.
About the supplier
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust: every public contract they have won.