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
- Leeds City Council - PACS · Regional or local authority
- Suppliers
- Thorpe Trees Limited SME, Tilhill Forestry Limited
- Value
- £465,186
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Agricultural & horticultural services · Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services (CPV 77000000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 000354-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Dec 2023
- Published5 Jan 2024Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
A contract for the outsourcing of some woodland creation across the city. The outsourcing will support the service in the delivery of planting and managing 50 hectares of woodland every year as we move into the fourth planting season since the start of the initiative. The service is seeking to supplement internal resource with contractors to provide additional capacity to meet the workload needed this winter and up to 2027. Additional capacity will support in the establishment management of sites whilst at a critical stage of development of young woodlands across the city to deliver city targets for climate change and zero carbon. The contract will commence during 2023/2024 planting season up to September 2027.
About the suppliers
Thorpe Trees Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05320280).
Tilhill Forestry Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03242286).