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
- Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust · NHS Foundation Trust
- Supplier
- Aset Hospital Limited SME
- Value
- £800,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Gynaecological hospital services (CPV 85111300)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 070165-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Oct 2025
- Published31 Oct 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
This notice is an intention to award a contract under the PSR Most Suitable Provider process.<br/>Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust requires additional outsourced outpatient clinic and theatre capacity to increase overall capacity for General Gynaecology services. Extremely high demand, driven by the unprecedented backlog created during the Covid-19 pandemic and internal staff capacity issues, is resulting in severe delays for routine care. To meet a proportion of this demand, it has been proposed to procure additional capacity from an independent provider via an outsourced model. The contracted services are anticipated to provide an initial capacity increase of up to 2600 outpatient appointments, including any diagnostic management and 500 surgical procedures. It will also be the responsibility of the outsourced provide to provider the administration wrap around.<br/><br/>This capacity needs to be provided by the 31st of March 2026; it is the responsibility of the provi…
About the supplier
Aset Hospital Limited: every public contract they have won.