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
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cygnet Healthcare Limited
- Value
- £2,862,765
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 055242-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2025
- Published10 Sep 2025Published 162 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of the effective co-ordination of the care packages within Locked/ Unlocked and Specialist Treatment services Be awarded; this notice serves to award under the PSR. This direct award C is for a ONE year period, from 1/4/25 to 31/3/26. Additional information: Expected contract value £2,862,765 Figures based on occupational bed day prices from £407.23 to £723.66.
About the supplier
Cygnet Healthcare Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02141256).