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
- North Cheshire & Mersey NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £565,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Hospital and related services (CPV 85110000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 091546-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Sep 2026
- Published28 Sep 2026Published 27 days after the contract date
Description
This is a intention to award a contract to the existing provider following direct award C up until 31 March 2028 to provide Consultant Radiologists and the use of the Burney Breast Screening Unit in St Helens to NCM as part of the wider Breast Screening Programme.
About the supplier
Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust: every public contract they have won.