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
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Quality Health Limited SME
- Value
- £72,063
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Survey services (CPV 79311000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 088277-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Aug 2026
- Published17 Sep 2026Published 35 days after the contract date
Description
The national NHS staff surveys and bank staff surveys across UHN. Procurement was conducted following the direct award process for G-Cloud 14 framework agreement (RM1557.14).
About the supplier
Quality Health Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04188012).