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
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Health Now Limited SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Supply services of personnel including temporary staff (CPV 79620000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 081072-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Nov 2025
- Published9 Dec 2025Published 28 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of specialist dissection biomedical scientists and experienced biomedical scientists to assist Laboratory team to prepare histological samples for microscopic reporting. 2 other suppliers where approached for this service, however both were unable to support the proposed solution. the suppliers was only able to offer a solution which would include specimen preparation to diagnostic report.
About the supplier
Health Now Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13335901).