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 Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Prince and Bates Optician SME
- Value
- £6,600
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Optician services (CPV 85160000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 082674-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Dec 2025
- Published12 Dec 2025Published 10 days after the contract date
Description
The service offers additional support to patients who have accessed Ophthalmology and require some additional support with low vision aids, to patients with non-complex needs that can be assessed and supported with the necessary aids in a community setting. The ICB is intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process C, where the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and will likely satisfy the proposed new contract, and the contract is not changing considerably. Anticipated spend is activity based. The contract for 2024/25 was capped at a contract value of £6,600 for 15 months. Actual expenditure for full year 2024/25 (04/24 - 03/25) was £2,038. Based on this, this award is for the period 01/01/26 - 31/03/27 (15 months) bringing the anticipated lifetime, maximum value of the contract to c.£6,600
About the supplier
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