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
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Primary Eyecare Services Limited SME
- Value
- £1,310,975
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Optician services (CPV 85160000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 057749-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Sep 2025
- Published18 Sep 2025Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
Intention to Award Notice for Direct Award C Process for the Provision of Community Minor & Urgent Eyecare Services for Staffordshire and Stoke - on - Trent Integrated Care Board. NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) are acting on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB). The ICB intends to follow the Direct Award C process in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) (PSR) 2023 for the Provision of Community Minor & Urgent Eyecare Services with CPV code 85160000 - Optician services. The Direct Award C process involves awarding a contract to provider(s) without running a competitive process, because the relevant authority (SSOT ICB) confirms that the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and is likely to satisfy the new contract, and the proposed contracting arrangements are not changing considerably from the existing contract. The new contract will run from 1st …
About the supplier
Primary Eyecare Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06722353).