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
- NSS Health Facilities Scotland · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- G4S
- Value
- £2,290,794
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Security services (CPV 79710000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 000832-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Oct 2020
- Published15 Jan 2021Published 79 days after the contract date
Description
This is a directly awarded contract between the Authority on behalf of NHS Scotland to meet the additional demands of the Scottish Health and Social Care sector during the current Covid-19 pandemic. This award has been approved for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority in line with Regulation 33(1)(c) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
About the supplier
G4S: every public contract they have won.