Official UK procurement notice
DGFT - NHS Sub-Contract for the Provision of Outsourced General Surgery Services
Authority: The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has awarded an NHS Sub-contract to Ramsay Health UK Limited for the provision of additional elective General Surgery capacity.<br/><br/>The service will support the reduction of General Surgery waiting times and treatment backlogs by providing eligible patients with access to triage, outpatient assessment, diagnostics where required, decision to treat and operative intervention.<br/><br/>Patients will be transferred in accordance with agreed clinical pathways and inclusion and exclusion criteria.<br/><br/>The contract has been awarded under Regulation 14 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 due to urgent circumstances and the need to ensure that the identified patient cohort can be seen and treated without further avoidable delay.
CPV: Health services
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single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The contract provides additional elective General Surgery capacity for patients…Awarded
The contract provides additional elective General Surgery capacity for patients identified by The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust as eligible for transfer under the agreed pathway and clinical inclusion and exclusion criteria.<br/><br/>The service incorporates, where applicable:<br/><br/>- clinical triage;<br/>- outpatient assessment;<br/>- diagnostics;<br/>- decision to treat;<br/>- operative intervention; and<br/>- management of patients through the agreed treatment pathway.<br/><br/>The arrangement is intended to provide additional capacity to support a reduction in waiting times and treatment backlogs and enable patients within the identified cohort to be seen and treated without further delay.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Ltd trading as Ashtead Hospital (NVC01) & North Downs Hospital (NVC11) | £971,566 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 107919-2026-1 · Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Ltd trading as Ashtead Hospital (NVC01) & North Downs Hospital (NVC11)
- Signed
- 11 Nov 2026
- Value
- £971,566
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Nov 2026, 11:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 11:30 GMT
- Authority reference
C487224- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107919- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The contract has been awarded under Regulation 14 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.<br/><br/>The award was required urgently, with time being of the essence to ensure that patients within the identified cohort could be seen and treated without further delay.<br/><br/>The urgent award provides a time-limited period of outsourced General Surgery capacity to support the Trust's existing internal capacity, reduce waiting times and address treatment backlogs.<br/><br/>Delaying the award in order to undertake an alternative provider selection process would have risked further delays to patient assessment and treatment.
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime award.<br/><br/>The award has been made under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.<br/><br/>The contract has been awarded under Regulation 14 of the Provider Selection Regime due to urgent circumstances.<br/><br/>Time is of the essence to ensure that patients within the identified cohort can be seen and treated without further delay. The urgent award provides a time-limited period of outsourced General Surgery capacity to supplement existing internal capacity and support the reduction of waiting times and treatment backlogs.<br/><br/>The decision to award considered the provider's price offering within NHS tariff arrangements, weighted, together with an assessment against the five key criteria of the Provider Selection Regime.<br/><br/>The award decision-makers included:<br/><br/>- Directorate Manager – Surgery, Urology & Vascular;<br/>- Director & Deputy Director of Procurement & Logistics; and<br/>- relevant Executive leads from within The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust.<br/><br/>The decision-makers considered the available information and determined that Ramsay Health UK Limited was suitable to provide the required services under the urgent award arrangement.<br/><br/>No standstill period was applied to this urgent award.<br/><br/>The contract is for a time-limited period
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Independent Choice and Procurement Panel.Review body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Ramsay Health Care UK Operations LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.