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 Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Newmedica
- Value
- £0.01
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 053389-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jan 2025
- Published3 Sep 2025Published 245 days after the contract date
Description
This service will provide an ophthalmology service for new referrals, providing consultant led pathways of care. Patients will be seen within the required Referral to Treatment timescales and where a follow-up appointment is required for on-going management, these will be within national guidance and service standards (the service provided will reflect NICE guidance) by appropriately qualified, service competent clinical practitioners. Ensuring that the service does not adversely impact the ability to deliver local comprehensive Ophthalmology services. The key objectives of the service are: - To ensure the provision of safe and effective Ophthalmology service provision to NHS patients for all services outlined in this specification. - To free up outpatient and primary eye care capacity for patients at higher risk of sight loss. - To ensure providers deliver end to end Ophthalmology pathways of care, providing service users with urgent post-surgery issues and complications can be advis…
About the supplier
Newmedica: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06211226).