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
- Food Standards Scotland (FSS) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Newcastle University
- Value
- £50,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis (CPV 71241000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 004597-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Feb 2021
- Published8 Mar 2021Published 35 days after the contract date
Description
FSS wish to commission Secondary Analysis of Data from the pilot of Intake24 in the 2018 SHeS in order to refine the dietary intake analysis model (to ensure that the data processing is standardised for dietary monitoring going forwards), and to drill further into the data, to explore further detail of dietary behaviours.
About the supplier
Newcastle University: every public contract they have won.