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 Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Citizens Advice Bureau South West Surrey SME
- Value
- £56,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Rehabilitation services (CPV 85312500)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 061116-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Mar 2024
- Published1 Oct 2025Published 549 days after the contract date
Description
Citizens Advice Bureau South West Surrey provide a specialist advisory service directly to people admitted as an inpatient within a mental health setting and deliver a service to clients with mental health problems in the community predominantly those under the care of secondary care mental health services, that are unable to be supported by more generic community services, namely the Citizens advice. This service covers Guildford & Waverley. NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB intends to award Citizens Advice Bureau South West Surrey, an existing provider, a contract following direct award process C. The approximate lifetime value of the contract will be £56,000 (£28,000 per annum) over the two year term, from 1st April 2024 until 31st March 2026. This procurement has been carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.
About the supplier
Citizens Advice Bureau South West Surrey: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03258272).