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
- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Diagnexia UK Limited
- Value
- £380,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Medical imaging services (CPV 85150000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 093475-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Oct 2026
- Published2 Oct 2026Published the same day
Description
To support the delivery of outsourced diagnostic Histopathology and Cytopathology Services for Betsi Cadwalardr University Health Board (BCUHB) BCUHB currently provides a centralised diagnostic service for Cellular Pathology, however, laboratory and reporting capacity is being regularly challenged and a current backlog of cases to include wet cases, cases awaiting microtomy and cases ready for reporting exists within the department. To maintain the diagnostic service with Cellular Pathology, an out-sourcing solution is required that can provide laboratory service in a UKAS accredited establishment together with Cellular Pathology reporting of either glass and / or digital whole slide images across a range of specialities. It is required that all reporting Pathologists engaged in this support must hold the FRCPath and have appropriate memberships of EQA Schemes in accordance with their sub-speciality.
About the supplier
Diagnexia UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13236796).