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 Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Fsne Medical Limited SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Patient-transport vehicles (CPV 34114122)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 053034-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2026
- Published4 Jun 2026Published 64 days after the contract date
Description
FSNE is a third party provider for NEAS. NEAS is not contracted to deliver same day discharges and the volume of last minute cancellations of patient transport was recently increasing leading to organisational pressure. It was agreed to fund discharge activity vehicle via FSNE at short notice to support with operational pressures.
About the supplier
Fsne Medical Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 12140299).