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 Sussex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC SME
- Value
- £8,126,127.21
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Medical practice services (CPV 85121000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 052601-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Jul 2025
- Published29 Aug 2025Published 35 days after the contract date
Description
This is a 12-month extension of the existing Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC contract in accordance with the NHS Provider Selection Regime circumstance of Urgent Award to ensure continuity of service to patients following NHSE panel review while challenges are processed and next steps agreed and enacted. The additional 12-month contract value will be £1,463,466.00 and will commence with effect from 1 Sept 2025.
About the supplier
Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10974442).