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 North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Primary Eyecare Services Limited
- Value
- £9,635.50
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 056254-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Sep 2025
- Published12 Sep 2025Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
To provide high quality community based non-complex post-op cataract service (second eye) for all patients aged 18 years or over. The service will reduce the number of review attendances at hospital eye services, creating capacity at overstretched out-patient clinics. The relevant authority intends to award a contract to an existing provider under Direct Award C under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) regulations 2023. The contract value is £9,635.50 Contract Start Date: 01 September 2025 Contract End Date: 31 March 2026 Although the contract start is 01/09/2025, the services have been delivered on an implied contract and contracts will be issued following the standstill period from the date of this notice.
About the supplier
Primary Eyecare Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06722353).