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
- Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS Hospital
- Supplier
- Epsomedical Limited
- Value
- £126,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Hospital and related services (CPV 85110000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 040045-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Feb 2026
- Published30 Apr 2026Published 76 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of elective diagnostic, outpatient and day case surgical activity delivered by Epsomedical Limited on behalf of Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Services support elective recovery and RTT backlog reduction and are delivered under NHS Standard Contract governance, with ASPH retaining overall pathway accountability.
About the supplier
Epsomedical Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03286288).