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
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Roche Diagnostics Ltd
- Value
- £58,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Pathology services (CPV 85111800)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 062701-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Jun 2026
- Published3 Jul 2026Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
The Midlands East 2 Pathology Network is made of the following NHS Trusts: University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust; University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust; and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust ("ME2 Network"). The ME2 Network carried out a further competition under Lot 1 of the NHS Supply Chain Framework Agreement for Laboratory Diagnostics, Point of Care Testing and Pathology Managed Services (Framework reference number 2023 S/00 028831) to select a pathology managed service provider (the "Successful Supplier"). North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust has entered into its own contract with the Successful Supplier. This contract award notice is being published by…
About the supplier
Roche Diagnostics Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00571546).