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
- Loughborough University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Stoford Loughborough Limited
- Value
- £4,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Real estate services · Development of non-residential real estate (CPV 70112000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 002093-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Jan 2025
- Published21 Jan 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The University is to enter into an agreement for lease with Stoford Loughborough Limited (“Stoford”) in respect of land located at the University’s Science and Enterprise Park. The agreement for lease provides for the grant of a 150-year lease to the lessee subject to conditions precedent including, amongst others, the obtaining of planning permission and Stoford entering into an agreement with the lessee whereby the lessee will accept the lease for agreed purposes. These are that Stoford will oversee the construction for the lessee by a building contractor of a new building comprising manufacturing, warehousing, offices, clean room facilities and site-specific infrastructure which will be sub-leased by the lessee to the sub-lessee pursuant to separate arrangements. To allow the new facility to be developed, occupied and accessed, infrastructure (roundabout, spine road and drainage) will be provided on separate land which will continue be owned and occupied by the University.
About the supplier
Stoford Loughborough Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 16166913).