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
- Scottish Water
- Supplier
- Hescott Engineering Company Limited SME
- Value
- £2,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Fabrication work (CPV 45255400)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 000438-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Dec 2025
- Published5 Jan 2026Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
Use of the negotiated procedure without prior call for competition
About the supplier
Hescott Engineering Company Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC109368).