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 Health Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cora Health Group Ltd
- Value
- £230,910
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Services provided by medical personnel (CPV 85141000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 096558-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Sep 2026
- Published13 Oct 2026Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
BBCUHB are seeking a time limited insourced pain management service for East Integrated Health Community (EIHC). The commissioned service will provide an end to end; evidence informed biopsychosocial pathway for a cohort of approximately 350 adult patients and is intended to clear East's pain management backlog of patients waiting over 104 weeks by 31st March 2027. The provider will need to mobilise within four to six weeks of contract award and will work with the Health Board (HB) to agree a detailed monthly trajectory. Transfer, contact or triage alone will not constitute backlog clearance. Each patient must reach an appropriate, recorded pathway outcome and the HB must receive the information needed to apply the NHS Wales referral to treatment rules correctly.
About the supplier
Cora Health Group Ltd: every public contract they have won.