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
- NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Better Health Bucks C.I.C
- Value
- £12,655,480
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · General-practitioner services (CPV 85121100)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 081583-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Aug 2026
- Published27 Aug 2026Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
NHS Thames Valley ICB ("the Commissioner") is commissioning APMS GP Services at Cressex Health Centre, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The contract is for the provision of Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) to deliver comprehensive primary medical services to the registered practice population. The service will provide accessible, safe and high-quality general practice services in accordance with the requirements of the APMS contract, including the provision of routine and urgent primary care, clinical assessment and treatment, preventative and health promotion services, long-term condition management, referral and care coordination, and appropriate collaboration with other health and care services. The service also includes the provision of a dedicated gender dysphoria service for eligible patients, supporting the assessment, care and ongoing management of adults with gender dysphoria/gender incongruence within primary care. This includes appropriate clinical assessment, tre…
About the supplier
Better Health Bucks C.I.C: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09608695).