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
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Brighton and Hove Primary Care Ltd SME
- Value
- £1,800,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · General-practitioner services (CPV 85121100)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 039810-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Nov 2024
- Published10 Dec 2024Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
The Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust ("the Authority") sought to procure and collaborate with a provider that can resource General Practitioners across the SCFT footprint to work closely with the Trust’s UCR teams. <br/><br/>The expectation is to embed the GPs within each UCR team with support broken down in a hybrid model of ‘On site’ face to face working, ‘Virtual’ support and ‘On Call cover to each UCR team base they are allocated to, each with an expectation to be able to do any urgent patient visits at the patient’s place of residence (within Sussex). <br/><br/>This requirement is paramount to the delivery of the pathway to keep acute patients safely out of hospital and at the place they call home.<br/><br/>The Authority intends to award a contract, following a Most Suitable Provider Process, in accordance with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (“PSR 2023”), to Brighton and Hove Federation, based on meeting all key selection criteria and m…
About the supplier
Brighton and Hove Primary Care Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11494383).