Awarded· 14 Feb 2025
Low Vision Aids
NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board · Dorset, South West
NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board has awarded Low Vision Aids. It is a contract for other health and social care in Dorset.
Source: Find a Tender, published 18 Mar 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Howie and Tickner
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 09:39
View notice2025
Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 13:50
View notice
About this tender
In brief
NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board has awarded Low Vision Aids. It is a contract for other health and social care in Dorset. The contract went to Howie and Tickner. It was awarded on 14 February 2025.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 18 March 2025. The notice number is 009908-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04e997.
Summary of the contracting process
NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board has awarded a contract for Low Vision Aid services to Howie and Tickner Limited under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) direct award Process C. The contract, specified under CPV classification 85160000 (Optician services), runs from 01 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and is based on activity, with the provider compensated per activity as per the Local Prices schedule.
This procurement falls outside the scope of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and was formally awarded on 14 February 2025. The services will be provided in the UKK2 region, specifically at Vespasian House, Barrack Road, Dorchester. Companies, especially SMEs, that have experience in healthcare services and optician services could leverage this procurement to expand their operations and establish a foothold within the public healthcare sector.
The notice in full
The organisation intends to award this contract to an existing provider, following Provider Selection Regime (PSR) direct award process C. The services to be provided under this contract are Low Vision Aid services. The contract will run between 01 April 2025, and 31 March 2026.
This contract is an activity based contract, with no set annual contract value, and the provider will be paid set prices per activity carried out as per the Local Prices schedule of the contract.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Howie and Tickner
- 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
- SME
Values
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 009908-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04e997
- CPV code
- 85160000 - Optician services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Town
- Dorchester
- Postcode
- DT1 1TG
- Electoral ward
- Dorchester West
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Delivery area
- Dorset and Somerset
- Region
- South West
- Sub-region
- Dorset
- Area
- North Somerset, Somerset and Dorset
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Address
- Dorchester, DT1 1TG · South West · England
Not stated in the notice: contact, phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Howie and Tickner
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Low Vision Aids
Who won the Low Vision Aids contract?
NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Howie and Tickner on 14 February 2025.
Who is the buyer for Low Vision Aids?
NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board, based in Dorset, South West.
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