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
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £20,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health and social work services (CPV 85000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 084476-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date9 Jun 2025
- Published18 Dec 2025Published 192 days after the contract date
Description
MCFT intends to contract with Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (MWL), Whiston Hospital, Warrington Road, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 5DR for the provision of a Tics and Tourettes service in Knowsley. MCFT is currently in contract with MWL. For the new contract MCFT requires the service to be mobilised from 01 November 2025 for a period of 12 months. It is intended to award the contract in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime Regulations under Direct Award Process C where there is an existing provider for the services and that existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed new contract, and the services are not changing considerably. The Senior Leadership Team of Community Care Division have made the decision for the award of this contract. No conflicts of interest have been identified and this has been recorded inline with Trust policy.
About the supplier
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: every public contract they have won.