Contract award · 16 Dec 2024

Ophthalmology- Referral Optimisation Service

NHS Frimley ICB awarded “Ophthalmology- Referral Optimisation Service” to Primary Eyecare Services Limited for £63,198. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionHealth & social careSouth East

BuyerNHS Frimley ICB
Value £63,198

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.

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Buyer
NHS Frimley ICB · Body governed by public law
Value
£63,198
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Health & social care · Ophthalmologist services (CPV 85121281)
Timeline
  1. Contract date16 Dec 2024
  2. Published17 Dec 2024Published 1 day after the contract date

Description

NHS Frimley ICB ("the Commissioner") sought to commission provision to provide an Ophthalmology- Referral Optimisation Service The service is for high street optometry acute referral optimisation - Providing Opera IT platform facilitating optometrists to make direct referrals to acute setting for AMD, cataract and glaucoma. Frimley ICB has followed PSR Direct Award C for the contract to which this notice relates. The Commissioner is directly awarding a contract to the existing provider Primary Eyecare Services Limited under PSR Direct Award C in accordance with the criteria outlined in Regulation (9) of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The total expected value of the contract for the initial one-year contract term is £ 31,599. The optional one-year extension expected value of the contract is £ 31,599. Therefore, the full expected lifetime contract value (one year + optional one year extension) is £63,198. For the avoidance of doubt, this contract …

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