Official UK procurement notice
Public Health Primary Care Contracts - Pharmacies
Authority: Peterborough City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPeterborough City Council has awarded Contracts for the provision of the following pharmacy services:
EHC (emergency hormonal contraception)
The award has been made via Direct Award Process B of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
CPV: Pharmacy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1EHC (emergency hormonal contraception)Awarded
Emergency Hormonal Contraception Services to be delivered by Community Pharmacies to support the local population.
Emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) may only be supplied by an accredited pharmacist. Medicine counter staff must be trained to refer each request for emergency hormonal contraception to the pharmacist(s). It is the responsibility of the Pharmacy Manager to ensure that all pharmacists, including
locums, supplying EHC are accredited.
The pharmacy must be able to supply emergency contraception during opening hours of the pharmacy on at least 4 days of the week, one of which will preferably be a Saturday.
Pharmacists will supply Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) when appropriate to clients in line with the requirements of the Patient Group Direction (PGD) for the supply of EHC by Community Pharmacists.
Pharmacies will offer a user-friendly, non-judgmental, client centred and confidential service. The supply will be made free of charge to the client at Peterborough City Council (PCC) expense, dependant on the residency of the local authority boundaries.
Pharmacists will link into existing networks for Sexual Health Services so that women who need to see a doctor can be referred on rapidly.
Clients excluded from the PGD criteria will be referred to another local service that will be able to assist them, as soon as possible, e.g., GP or community sexual health service.
The pharmacy will provide support and advice to clients accessing the service, including advice on the avoidance of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through safer sex and condom use, advice on the use of regular contraceptive methods and provide onward signposting to sexual health services that provide long-term contraceptive methods and diagnosis and management of STIs.
This award is made in accordance with Direct Award Process B of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
The contract value is £112,000.
The initial contract period is 05 August 2025 - 30 June 2027 with two options to extend for a further 12 months each (maximum contract term is therefore 4 years).
This is a continuation of an existing service awarded to an existing provider.
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
- 17 Sept 2025, 14:06 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Sept 2025, 14:06 BST
- Authority reference
DN750365- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-057352- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059c48Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded 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.
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded 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. The decision to award the contracts is made by Cllr Dennis Jones. Cllr Qayyum, lead member for Adults and Public health, declared a conflict of interest (they work as a General Practitioner) and was therefore not involved in the decision to award these contracts.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMPHARMA UK LTD | £112,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
EHC (emergency hormonal contraception) · ARMPHARMA UK LTD
- Signed
- 22 Jul 2025
- Value
- £112,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- ARMPHARMA UK LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.