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
- Public Health England · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Eden Caterers Limited
- Value
- £165,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Hospitality & catering · Catering services (CPV 55520000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 003514-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date22 Feb 2021
- Published22 Feb 2021Published the same day
Description
The provision of emergency catering for staff working as part of the Government's response to the Covid pandemic. The contract runs from 18 March 2020 to 31 March 2021 unless terminated earlier. The UK Government must protect the health and wellbeing of UK citizens. The COVID-19 outbreak is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) as declared by the World Health Organisation on 30 January 2020. The WHO Director General characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. PHE discharges its duties as a Category 1 Responder to emergencies on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care within the scope of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA 2004). This urgent requirement is in response to the recent COVID -19 outbreak. The negotiated procedure without a prior publication has been used due to extreme urgency on the grounds of regulation 32(2)(c) as the purchase of these emergency catering services will assist in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
About the supplier
Eden Caterers Limited: every public contract they have won.