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
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Autism Clinic London Limited SME, Friends Medical Service Limited SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Surgical hospital services (CPV 85111100)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 065911-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Oct 2025
- Published16 Oct 2025Published the same day
Description
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of framework agreements is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 and The Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and The Procurement Regulations 2024 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight at the end of 29 October 2025 to info@coch-cps.co.uk. The framework agreements have not yet been formally concluded; this notice serves as an intention to establish the framework agreements under the PSR. The award decision makers were two Senior Commercial Procurement Specialists, the Commercial Procurement Manager and the Director of Commercial Procurement Services. The Key Criteria were: • Social Value Pass/Fail • Val…
Lots in this award
| Lot | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Provision of Insourced and Outsourced Clinical Services Framework (Framework Reopening): Lot 2 Outsourced Clinical Services | Autism Clinic London Limited SME | — |
| Provision of Insourced and Outsourced Clinical Services Framework (Framework Reopening) | Friends Medical Service Limited SME | — |
About the suppliers
Autism Clinic London Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 12269190).
Friends Medical Service Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company NI667193).