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 Health and Social Care · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Sodexo
- Value
- £221,200,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Facilities management services (CPV 79993100)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 002265-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Jan 2021
- Published4 Feb 2021Published 22 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of facilities management services to support the rapid set-up and operation of Covid-19 testing sites at various locations across the UK, as part of the Government’s pandemic response. The FM services primarily includes site management, security, patient traffic control, cleaning and the management of all site infrastructure and consumables.
About the supplier
Sodexo: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00842846).