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
- Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Various Pharmacies
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Pharmacy services (CPV 85149000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 056936-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Mar 2026
- Published17 Jun 2026Published 84 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of supervised consumption of naloxone and/or Needle exchange services in the Isle Of Wight. This is carried out by a suitably trained and qualified pharmacist within a community pharmacy setting. An award has been made following direct award process B, the lifetime value of this contract is estimated to be £66,666.66, however as service users have free choice of which pharmacy they visit in the area it is not possible to project an accurate contract value. This contract is active from 1st April 2026 to 31st July 2027. This is an existing service and the providers are likely to be both existing and new.
About the supplier
Various Pharmacies: every public contract they have won.