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 Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Suffolk GP Federation SME
- Value
- £798,475
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Medical imaging services (CPV 85150000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 063338-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Jul 2025
- Published8 Oct 2025Published 75 days after the contract date
Description
This is an open access community ultrasound service for adults aged 17 years and over and available to all referring clinicians within Ipswich and East Suffolk Place. Access to the service is across the place locality at a number of community venues and not at the acute site. The contract has been extended for a period of 12 months to allow a review of capacity and service delivery for diagnostic needs to be completed to understand the ongoing requirement for community ultrasound. NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of thi…
About the supplier
Suffolk GP Federation: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06183049).