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
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Optimum Medical Solutions Limited SME
- Value
- £15,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 078412-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Aug 2026
- Published18 Aug 2026Published the same day
Description
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The relevant Tender Notice was 2026/S 000-054812 with OCID ocds-h6vhtk-06b200 The awarding of this framework agreement is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and The Procurement Regulations 2024 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight at the end of 1 September 2026 to info@coch-cps.co.uk . This framework agreement has not yet been formally concluded; this notice serves as an intention to establish the framework agreement under the PSR. The award decision makers were a Senior Commercial Procurement Specialist, the Commercial Procurement Manager and the Director of Commercial Procurement Services. The Key Criteria were: Lot 1 • Social Value Pass/Fa…
About the supplier
Optimum Medical Solutions Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06779883).