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
- University of Strathclyde · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cronite Castings Ltd
- Value
- £121,716
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Construction & mining machinery · Machinery for metallurgy and associated parts (CPV 43700000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 002489-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Feb 2021
- Published8 Feb 2021Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
The Boeing Company (Boeing) approached the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) for research and development support in creating new manufacturing equipment and processes to meet the demand for key aircraft components. With the Boeing Innovative Metals Forming R&D Initiative and AFRC’s capital assets and expertise, one of Boeing’s requirements for AFRC is that they engage in state of the art manufacturing research projects that push the boundaries of technology for superplastic forming (SPF) and incremental bulk forming processes. As a result, Boeing has a requirement that the Manufacture and Supply of a Superplastic Forming Die & Fixing System is procured as part of this research and development programme.
About the supplier
Cronite Castings Ltd: every public contract they have won.