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
- London Grid for Learning Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Virgin Media Limited
- Value
- £2,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Miscellaneous networking software package (CPV 48219000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 000561-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Dec 2023
- Published8 Jan 2024Published 20 days after the contract date
Description
1. LGfL was established in 2001 as a Regional Broadband Authority by the 32 London local authorities and the City of London Council. It was established as a not-for-profit company and a registered charity, and is a body governed by public law. Its purpose is to provide broadband connectivity, Information and Communications Technology and related services to schools in London, LGfL’s ‘customers’. It currently provides essential services to over 3,000 schools providing education to more than 1.2 million students each year. 2. LGfL awarded a contract to VMB on 25 March 2014 pursuant to Contract Award Notice No. 2013/S 245-427165 for: a. transmission services, including (but not limited to) leased circuits, dark fibre, wide area Ethernet and xDSL leased circuits and wide area Ethernet services are typically required at bandwidths of 10Mbit/s and above; b. management services of the Core national, regional and to the edge premises equipment; and c. supply of telecommunication and telephone…
About the supplier
Virgin Media Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01785381).