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
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Arcadis Consulting (UK) Limited
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Architectural design services (CPV 71220000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 078659-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Aug 2026
- Published18 Aug 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
This ITT seeks to appoint a Lead Designer and multi-disciplinary Architect Led Design Team (ALDT) to deliver RIBA Stage 2 (and prospectively Stage 3) design services for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust's New Hospital Programme scheme, procured as a further competition under the HPCCAS framework (SBS10190, Lot 1). <br/><br/>The commission spans three linked components: a new-build c.114,000sqm Hospital 2.0-compliant acute hospital on a greenfield site; a c.3,000sqm extension at Heatherwood Hospital (following a value-engineered, non-standard design approach agreed with NHP); and refurbishment/reconfiguration of the retained, non-RAAC portion of the existing Frimley Park Hospital estate (recently reduced in scope by circa 90%, with no new-build content). <br/><br/>The successful bidder will act as Lead Designer coordinating around 30 named disciplines (architecture, structural/civil engineering, MEP, principal designer, BREEAM/sustainability, landscape, transport, fire engineering, …
About the supplier
Arcadis Consulting (UK) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02212959).