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
- The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Ipsen
- Value
- £1,553,548
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Pharmaceutical products (CPV 33600000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 071245-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Nov 2025
- Published5 Nov 2025Published the same day
Description
Supply of Triptorelin (Decapeptyl®) to NHS Scotland. The Authority has awarded this framework as a single supplier framework per line to one (1) Framework Participant. II.2.11) Information about option.
About the supplier
Ipsen: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06751069).