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 West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £32,500,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Ambulance services (CPV 85143000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 053937-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Sep 2025
- Published4 Sep 2025Published the same day
Description
The Contract Authority, the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, intends to award a contract to an existing provider following Direct Award Process C. The authority is publishing this notice in Find a Tender in accordance with the NHS Provider Selection Regime.<br/>The Contract Term is 22 months. 1st October 2025 to the 31st July 2027. Additional information: The existing provider(s) is satisfying the contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard. <br/>The criteria of the PSR have been applied as follows:<br/>Quality and innovation (including performance): 60%<br/>Value: 10%<br/>Integration, collaboration and service sustainability: 10%<br/>Improving access, reducing health inequalities and improving choice: 10%<br/>Social value: 10%
About the supplier
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust: every public contract they have won.