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
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £697,643.28
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 071139-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Oct 2019
- Published5 Nov 2025Published 2223 days after the contract date
Description
EPR system between primary care, community and acute hospitals. Additional information: Requirement is to extend for 2.5 years to allow the Trust to undertake a new procurement for the provision of community EPR when it becomes available through LPP frameworks.
About the supplier
Egton Medical Information System (Optum): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02117205).