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
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £250,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Medical imaging services (CPV 85150000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 101163-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Oct 2026
- Published26 Oct 2026Published the same day
Description
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust intends to award a contract under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 using the Most Suitable Provider Process. The contract is for the provision of additional MRI diagnostic imaging capacity to support waiting list reduction and recovery of referral to treatment performance. Services include patient booking, appointment management, MRI safety screening, MRI scanning, diagnostic reporting, management of cancellations and DNAs, image transfer and associated administration services. The service will be delivered by AM Diagnostic Imaging Ltd. trading as AM Diagnostic Services, part of the Affidea Group, from Whitstable MRI at Estuary View, Kent. This is a new backlog reduction arrangement intended to support the transfer of an initial cohort of approximately 1,000 clinically vetted non-contrast MRI patients, together with any subsequent activity agreed by the parties. The approximate lifetime value of t…
About the supplier
AM Diagnostic Imaging Ltd. trading as AM Diagnostic Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13708069).