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
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- HATS Group Limited SME
- Value
- £6,810,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Ambulance services (CPV 85143000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 071705-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Jul 2026
- Published29 Jul 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The contract provides Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services for eligible patients requiring transport to and from healthcare services.<br/><br/>The service includes outpatient transport, discharge transport, renal transport, bariatric transport, mental health transport, secure transport and high dependency transport.<br/><br/>Following assessment under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, the Authority determined that Direct Award Process C is the appropriate award process.
About the supplier
HATS Group Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03135655).