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
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Focus Medical Services SME
- Value
- £120,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 059672-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Jan 2025
- Published25 Sep 2025Published 263 days after the contract date
Description
Direct Award C via PSR. Additional information: (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 2 October 2025 and sent to rebecca.walls1@nhs.net This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR
About the supplier
Focus Medical Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06520098).