Awarded· 9 Sept 2025
Integrated Cataract Service: Enhanced Cataract Referral & Post Operative Follow Up Services
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board · Stafford, West Midlands
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board has awarded this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Stafford.
Source: Find a Tender, published 27 Oct 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Primary Eyecare Services
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 13:28
View notice2025
Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 15:09
View notice
About this tender
In brief
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board has awarded this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Stafford. The contract went to Primary Eyecare Services. It was awarded on 9 September 2025. The contract value is £999,559.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 27 October 2025. The notice number is 068618-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-059d3b.
Summary of the contracting process
The procurement process involves NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB) for the Integrated Cataract Service: Enhanced Cataract Referral & Post Operative Follow Up Services, classified under the optician services industry category. Located in Stafford, UK, this contract covering the period from 1st October 2025 to 31st March 2027, is valued at £999,559.
The procurement method employed is a Direct Award C process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) 2023, bypassing competitive tendering due to the satisfactory performance of the existing provider. The contract was formally awarded on 1st October 2025, and the service delivery spans from Staffordshire to Stoke-on-Trent.
The notice in full
NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) are acting on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB). The ICB intends to follow the Direct Award C process in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) (PSR) 2023 for the Provision of Integrated Cataract Service: Enhanced Cataract Referral & Post Operative Follow Up with CPV Code 85160000: Optician services
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
Intention to Award Notice for Direct Award C Process for the Provision of Integrated Cataract Service: Enhanced Cataract Referral & Post Operative Follow Up Services for Staffordshire and Stoke - on - Trent Integrated Care Board. NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) are acting on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB).
The ICB intends to follow the Direct Award C process in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) (PSR) 2023 for the Provision of with CPV Code 85160000: Optician services.
The Direct Award C process involves awarding a contract to provider(s) without running a competitive process, because the relevant authority (SSOT ICB) confirms that the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and is likely to satisfy the new contract, and the proposed contracting arrangements are not changing considerably from the existing contract.
The new contract will run from 1st October 2025 to 31st March 2027, and the estimated lifetime value of the new contract is PS999,559 (this is an activity-based contract).
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Primary Eyecare Services
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Tender, Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
Values
- Contracts value
- £999,559
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 068618-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-059d3b
- CPV code
- 85160000 - Optician services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Stafford
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Postcode
- ST18 0BF
- Electoral ward
- Milwich
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
- Delivery area
- Stoke-on-Trent, TLG24 Staffordshire CC
- Region
- West Midlands
- Sub-region
- Staffordshire CC
- Area
- Shropshire and Staffordshire
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Gabriela Bussoli
- Address
- Stafford, ST18 0BF · West Midlands · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Primary Eyecare Services
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about this tender
Who won the Integrated Cataract Service: Enhanced Cataract Referral & Post Operative Follow… contract?
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Primary Eyecare Services on 9 September 2025.
How much is the Integrated Cataract Service: Enhanced Cataract Referral & Post Operative Follow… contract worth?
The contract value is £999,559.
Who is the buyer for Integrated Cataract Service: Enhanced Cataract Referral & Post Operative Follow…?
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board, based in Stafford, West Midlands. The named contact is Gabriela Bussoli.
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