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 England · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- NLA Media Access Limited (NLA) SME
- Value
- £108,020
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Feb 2025
- Published8 Apr 2025Published 40 days after the contract date
Description
Newspaper Licensing Association (NLA) is the UK's publisher-owned rights licensing and publisher services business with a core aim of supporting journalism. Working on behalf of the UK's newspaper and magazine publisher's, NLA license's organisations to make paper and digital copies of newspaper, magazine and news website content. Renewal of these licenses (50) is due, for the Executive and Media teams to access copyrighted content included in the daily media monitoring summaries to ensure effective reputational management and oversight of NHSE.
About the supplier
NLA Media Access Limited (NLA): every public contract they have won.