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
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Regional or local agency/office
- Supplier
- GP Primary Choice (GPPC) SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Hospital services (CPV 85111000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 070269-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date9 Sep 2025
- Published31 Oct 2025Published 52 days after the contract date
Description
ESNEFT Acute CDC Phlebotomy was originally commissioned by NEE CCG/SNEE ICB as a <br/>Variation to their PES contract with GPPC. In 2023 ESNEFT were informed they would need <br/>to commission the service as it would no longer be included in the PES Contract as a variation. <br/>At this time the GPPC PES contract was due to expire in late October 2023 and the SNEE <br/>ICB intentions post this date had not been defined. As the service worked well for both parties <br/>and the patients within the community benefited from a single delivery location not just for <br/>Acute Phlebotomy/Community GP Phlebotomy, they were also delivering other services for <br/>NEECS and Acute. In the interim GPPC were direct awarded a 6-month contract under <br/>Waiver with a further 6-month contract under PSR Option C to allow time for SNEE ICB to <br/>consider their options on their PES commissioning. SNEE ICB have extended their contract <br/>PES contract with GPPC until September 2026. Additional inform…
About the supplier
GP Primary Choice (GPPC): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08486936).