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
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · NHS Organisation
- Supplier
- Micropathology Ltd
- Value
- £147,810
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Services provided by medical laboratories (CPV 85145000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 102034-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Oct 2026
- Published28 Oct 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Description of Services: The provision of a testing service for virology/bacterial requests by PCR/serology/sequencing and the reporting of these results with appropriate interpretive comments. Contract Award Statement: Intention to award a contract to an existing provider (Micropathology Ltd) following Provider Selection Regime direct award process C. Approximate Lifetime Value of the Contract: £147,810 Contract Period: 8 September 2026 to 7 September 2027
About the supplier
Micropathology Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03022426).