Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Wirral Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Pennington choice Ltd SME
- Value
- £400,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Waste, cleaning & environmental · Asbestos removal services (CPV 90650000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 000169-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Dec 2025
- Published5 Jan 2026Published 21 days after the contract date
Description
The Council is seeking to appoint a supplier (the "Contractor") Provision of Asbestos Surveying and Sampling Works, to buildings owned by Wirral Borough Council (the "Council") or in which the Council has an interest e.g. Libraries, Leisure Centres, Administration Centres, Industrial Units and Schools etc. within the administrative boundaries of the Council. Elements within this contract includes but not be limited to; Management, Refurbishment and Demolition Asbestos Surveys, Re-inspection Asbestos Surveys, emergency sampling works, planning Analyst/Surveyor works and providing access equipment (Scaffolding). The contract also required a 24 hour call out and 3-hour emergency call out service. Additional information: This is a call off via the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO) DPS 880 Building Envelope Services, Category 8 - Inspection Surveying Services including Asbestos Surveys
About the supplier
Pennington choice Ltd: every public contract they have won.