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
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS
- Supplier
- Starlight Digital Services Ltd
- Value
- £1,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 102571-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Oct 2026
- Published29 Oct 2026Published 23 days after the contract date
Description
digital support across the Acute Provider Collaborative
About the supplier
Starlight Digital Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07522279).