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
- The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness (KCAH) SME
- Value
- £132,804
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 048070-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 May 2026
- Published22 May 2026Published the same day
Description
KCAH's Bridge service forms a key part of the local model that supports that aims to ensure that services to rough sleepers and those at risk of rough sleeping are provided in an integrated and collaborative way in the following ways: * Bringing services to people, working assertively and flexibly to engage/ re-engage people. * Improving the quality of life for rough sleepers. * Ensuring that the provision of harm reduction services are delivered seamlessly. * Supporting building skills and abilities, knowledge, connections and resilience. * Working jointly with Kingston Wellbeing Service and the local Health Trust to increase the number of rough sleepers and those at risk of rough sleeping accessing drug and alcohol treatment services to improve health and recovery outcomes. * Providing a Needle Exchange Service * Using a partnership approach to delivering services to meet needs now and in future years The Royal Borough of Kingston intends to use the Direct Award Process C to award t…
About the supplier
Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness (KCAH): every public contract they have won.