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 Sussex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Harbour Medical Practice SME
- Value
- £0.01
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Medical imaging services (CPV 85150000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 041335-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Dec 2024
- Published23 Dec 2024Published 16 days after the contract date
Description
The overarching aims of the NOUS services across Sussex are: • To ensure Patients receive the right test at the right time and in the most clinically appropriate local setting. • To ensure diagnostic testing is integrated across pathways of care, that the report and images follows the Patient and that there is no unnecessary duplication of investigation. • To enable Patients and referring clinicians to access a choice of provision according to patient choice, clinical need and relevant care pathway; and • To ensure diagnostic tests are appropriate, necessary, clinically correct, of high quality, with timely access and reporting. The existing community providers support the Sussex system, which removes demand from acute trusts that would otherwise complete this work This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award Notice (via Direct Award B). This is a zero value contract. The contract start date is 01.04.2024 The contract end date is 31.03.2029 This is an existing provider.
About the supplier
Harbour Medical Practice: every public contract they have won.