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
- University College London Hospitals NHS FT · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Epic Systems Corporation
- Value
- £19,455,575
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 066388-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Jul 2024
- Published17 Oct 2025Published 455 days after the contract date
Description
The Trust currently has a contract for an electronic patient records system which we require to continue support and maintenance for our licences utilising regulation 72(1)(b)(c).
About the supplier
Epic Systems Corporation: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06280889).