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
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · NHS Trust
- Supplier
- Wessex Healthcare Diagnostics (WHD) SME
- Value
- £1,600,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Medical imaging services (CPV 85150000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 058226-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jun 2026
- Published19 Jun 2026Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
Chest CT reporting for TLHC program , plus ad hoc Elective Radiology Reporting
About the supplier
Wessex Healthcare Diagnostics (WHD): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC429518).