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
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (daera) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Carlisle Support Services
- Value
- £257,101
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Security services (CPV 79710000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 000456-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Dec 2020
- Published11 Jan 2021Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
The legislative basis for the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Operational Delivery Programme is in the Official Controls Regulation (OCR) (2017/625). The requirements as set out in the OCR are part of domestic law as a result of Article 5(4) of the NI Protocol and Section 7A of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Under the OCR, DAERA is responsible for SPS checks on certain goods coming into Northern Ireland. The service is for seal checks at the Port.
About the supplier
Carlisle Support Services: every public contract they have won.