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 Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited SME
- Value
- £40,561.91
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 081726-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Aug 2026
- Published27 Aug 2026Published 20 days after the contract date
Description
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board have direct awarded a contract for the purchase of a replacement cryostat for Pathology at Glan Clwyd Hospital. This was awarded via the NHS Supply Chain Framework for Laboratory Diagnostics, Point of Care Testing & Pathology Managed Services (Reference: 2023/S 000-028831).
About the supplier
Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00476611).