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 Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Pastel Health Ltd SME
- Value
- £0.01
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 061132-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Sep 2025
- Published1 Oct 2025Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
This contract award has been made following Direct Award Process B under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 and the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (as amended) do not apply. This is a zero-value contract and is awarded with no guarantee of activity. The value will vary dependent upon the activity delivered. Therefore, this notice outlines a total contract value of £0.01. The services are contracted using locally set tariffs which represent good value for money. The contract will commence on 1 October 2025 for a period of 3-years (with an option to extend for an additional period of 2-years). This is an existing service and the provider is a new provider of Pain Management Services to the ICB.
About the supplier
Pastel Health Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 15708330).