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
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS
- Supplier
- Nuffield Health
- Value
- £380,584
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 047997-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Jul 2025
- Published12 Aug 2025Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
To provide an outsourced solution for orthopaedic procedures to support waiting list demand.
About the supplier
Nuffield Health: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00576970).