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
- Genomics England Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Hopkins Van Mil: Creating Connections Ltd SME
- Value
- £686,875
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Public relations consultancy services (CPV 79416200)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 076013-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2025
- Published21 Nov 2025Published 51 days after the contract date
Description
To commission an engagement programme to understand public and healthcare professional perspectives on the choices involved in introducing genomic testing within healthcare settings for adults without a known, genetically caused or influenced condition. This engagement programme will involve exploring people's attitudes in a range of scenarios to test their perspectives on the parameters within which people would feel comfortable with genomic sequencing and the return of genomic findings that may be clinically accredited or may be research findings.
About the supplier
Hopkins Van Mil: Creating Connections Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09093788).