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
- Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Outpatient Network SME
- Value
- £414,480
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 043071-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Jul 2025
- Published25 Jul 2025Published the same day
Description
"Pressures on the Oral Maxillofacial Service have continued to increase with a high demand and an RTT waiting list of over 4,400 patient and an increasing volume of those waiting over 52 weeks which is now sat at over 720. This demand issue has been compounded by increased gaps in the consultant workforce that have presented a challenge to cover both short and long-term. This has resulted in prioritising our available resource on ensuring patient safety, urgent trauma and cancer pathways. The risk to elective patients, with the current available resource, requires the urgent intervention of additional clinical capacity to prevent deterioration of our existing position and ensure patient safety. Therefore we require urgent insourcing provision to mitigate this risk. "
About the supplier
Outpatient Network: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13779605).