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 North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cumbria Health
- Value
- £7,201,234
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health and social work services (CPV 85000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 086726-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jul 2026
- Published14 Sep 2026Published 75 days after the contract date
Description
"Cumbria Health- Emergency Treatment Centre Nursing Service, In Hours Call Handling Service and other misc services. The miscellaneous services are North In-Hours Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) including Urgent Community Response Single Point of Access (SPA), and Management of Localised Community Outbreaks (North Cumbria) "
About the supplier
Cumbria Health: every public contract they have won.