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 England · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- InHealth Intelligence
- Value
- £180,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 047096-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date10 Jul 2025
- Published8 Aug 2025Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
This is an Urgent Award under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. <br/><br/>This is a 4 month contract with the option to extend for no more than 8 weeks for Breast Cancer Screening providing support to an existing provider.<br/><br/>Unforeseen circumstances with the Primary Provider of these services has resulted in a backlog of patients awaiting appointments. Due to the scale of the patient backlog and to ensure that they are seen as quickly as possible, bringing a third party provider in to support the contractor see these patients and reduce the backlog as quickly as possible was in the best interests of the patients as it reduces the waiting list and may result in improved outcomes of earlier diagnosis.<br/><br/>The awarded provider, InHealth, already holds Breast Screening Contracts in the London region and has capacity to support our primary contractor within the urgent timeframes without impacting other services. <br/><br/>The lifetime value …
About the supplier
InHealth Intelligence: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03257228).