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
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- DMC Healthcare Ltd SME
- Value
- £77,820
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · ENT or audiologist services (CPV 85121240)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 083924-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Nov 2025
- Published17 Dec 2025Published 39 days after the contract date
Description
The provision of an insourced clinical support service to deliver elective care locally for patients, providing audiology assessment provision to patients across sites on weekends and any weekday following mutual agreement. Additional information: (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt,the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
About the supplier
DMC Healthcare Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06745192).