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 Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £559,745,166
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 048665-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2025
- Published14 Aug 2025Published 135 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of inpatient and community mental health services. The Commissioner is directly awarding, following direct award process A, a contract to Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust in accordance with the criteria outlined in Regulation (9) of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The contract has been awarded for the period 01/04/2025 - 31/03/2027 with no provision for extension included. The contract has been awarded by Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (BNSSG ICB) and Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Bard (BSW ICB) with BNSSG ICB as the co-coordinating Commissioner
About the supplier
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust: every public contract they have won.