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
- The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Source Bioscience UK Limited SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Pathology services (CPV 85111800)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 065353-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Jun 2026
- Published10 Jul 2026Published 17 days after the contract date
Description
Cellular Pathology Service
About the supplier
Source Bioscience UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04078501).