Provision of Vaccine Sample Carrier

Further Justification for Direct Award:

The selected procurement route is a PA23 regulated below‑threshold direct award, to be delivered through the establishment of a catalogue‑based arrangement. This forms part of an initiative to transition expenditure from off‑contract to on‑contract spend, thereby strengthening procurement governance, financial control and demonstrable value for money. For the purposes of this arrangement, a catalogue is defined as a structured schedule of pre‑priced goods (and associated descriptions, codes and units of measure) made available to multiple clinical departments and specialties via the Trust’s recognised ordering systems, enabling requisitioners to draw down approved items against an agreed set of terms and prices. Such catalogues typically encompass a diverse range of product lines which would not naturally be grouped into a single tender exercise due to differing clinical applications, technical s