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
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Pungo Ltd SME
- Value
- £1,536,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Community & personal services · Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 100676-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Sep 2026
- Published23 Oct 2026Published 30 days after the contract date
Description
A digital community coordination, social prescribing, and work and health platform designed to support health, care, local authority, and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The platform enables organisations to connect individuals with appropriate community, voluntary, statutory, NHS, and work and health support, while coordinating referrals, managing personalised pathways, and monitoring outcomes. The service supports a scalable strategic deployment across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, enabling eligible services and organisations to adopt the platform where it aligns with local service models, care pathways, and operational requirements. This provides a consistent approach to collaboration and referral management across the system, while improving visibility of activity, outcomes, and service utilisation. The service provider can facilitate referrals into WorkWell and wider work and health provision a…
About the supplier
Pungo Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11914576).