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
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- ID Medical Group Limited
- Value
- £1,378,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Gastroenterologist services (CPV 85121251)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 087484-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Sep 2026
- Published15 Sep 2026Published the same day
Description
The appointed insourcing provider will deliver weekday and weekend endoscopy procedures at University Hospital Llandough (UHL) and weekend-only services at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW). The Health Board will provide the physical endoscopy theatre infrastructure, all associated equipment, and standard consumables necessary for individual procedures. The scope of procedures delivered under this insourcing provision will include a range of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, such as (but was not limited to): - Diagnostic Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) - Diagnostic Flexible Sigmoidoscopy - Diagnostic Colonoscopy - Biopsy procedures The provider for this service is ID Medical (2 Mill Square, Featherstone Rd, Wolverton Mill, Wolverton, Milton Keynes MK12 5ZD)
About the supplier
ID Medical Group Limited: every public contract they have won.