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
- Kent County Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd SME
- Value
- £100,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health and social work services (CPV 85000000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 045114-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Jul 2025
- Published1 Aug 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
A health and social care community equipment service for the people who reside within Kent. This contract will be a direct award from the Procurement Services Integrated Community Care Equipment and Associated Services Framework Y24008 Lot 1. Notwithstanding that this Contract Notice states that Quality Criteria was the basis for the direct award to the Supplier, the Contract Authority has satisfied itself that the objective conditions for a direct award of a contract set out in Framework Y24008 Lot 1 have been met. The Contracting Authority has set out in the Quality Criteria the direct award conditions that it intends to rely upon. This award ensures continuity of supply in the delivery of statutory services.
About the supplier
Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04198824).