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
- Dsit
- Supplier
- The Neurodegeneration Initiative Limited SME
- Value
- £106,796
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and experimental development services (CPV 73100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Feb 2026
- Published12 Mar 2026Published 17 days after the contract date
Description
The Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals initiative (BARARA) exists to deliver the government's ambitions set out in the 10 Year Health Plan and Life Sciences Sector Plan, to realise a new generation of precision dementia therapies and solutions for the UK - by accelerating innovations in biomarkers, clinical trials and implementation; working across the dementia research ecosystem. The Neurodegeneration Initiative is uniquely placed to design and deliver an Expression of Interest (EoI) process s to test the feasibility of BARBARA as a federated national platform connecting existing dementia and non-dementia cohorts, and to generate evidence to inform future national scale-up.
About the supplier
The Neurodegeneration Initiative Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 16213027).