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
- Somerset Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- British Red Cross
- Value
- £550,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Community health services (CPV 85323000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 102511-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Oct 2026
- Published29 Oct 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
- description of the services to be provided: For the purpose of this model the term 'intermediate care' is used to describe services in the community that provide short term period of stabilisation, assessment, and reablement with the view to maximising a person's independence and, where possible, keep them at home. - Somerset Council is intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process C - the approximate lifetime value of the contract: £550,000 You should also include the dates between which the services are intended to be provided: 11.11.2026 - 10.11.2028.
About the supplier
British Red Cross: every public contract they have won.