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 Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- New Medical Systems Ltd, SpaMedica
- Value
- £23,666.51
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 042177-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Jul 2025
- Published22 Jul 2025Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
This notice is an intention to award a contract based on a framework agreement with a competition. A mini-competition has been conducted under the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Framework Agreement for Outsourcing / Insourcing of Clinical, Surgical & Diagnostic Services Reference Number PRO-OJEULT-50776. The mini-competition was run to establish a contract to cover Outsourcing to address the back-log of patients in respect of the Ophthalmology procedures to reduce the number of patients waiting on the inpatient waiting list. The intention to split the award contract over two providers with 50% allocated to each for a combined total of 82 cases to be completed by end of September 2025 with options to extend cohort patients numbers beyond September 25 to 31st March 26, subject to further funding approval.
About the suppliers
New Medical Systems Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06211226).
SpaMedica: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06644293).