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
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £4,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Hospital support services (CPV 85112000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 070419-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Jul 2026
- Published24 Jul 2026Published the same day
Description
UHNM, delivered via the North Midlands and Cheshire Pathology Service, is an established NHS provider with the appropriate organisational standing, governance, workforce, technical capability and clinical infrastructure to deliver the Children and Young People Eating Disorder Pathology Service. The provider has an identifiable NHS organisational code, a registered principal place of business, and existing arrangements for secure electronic requesting, reporting and clinical escalation. The provider is not an SME and is part of a statutory NHS Trust, with appropriate financial governance, clinical governance, information governance, safeguarding, quality assurance and business continuity arrangements in place. There is no evidence from the current contract term of exclusion grounds, material performance failure, quality concerns, conflicts of interest, or inability to meet the requirements of the proposed contract. The provider has demonstrated that it has the relevant experience, spec…
About the supplier
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM): every public contract they have won.