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
- Transport for the North · Sub National Transport Body
- Supplier
- PA Consulting Services Ltd
- Value
- £1,830,500
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 79400000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 004879-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Sep 2019
- Published10 Mar 2021Published 553 days after the contract date
Description
Transport for the North is placing this transparency notice to inform economic operators of its intention to modify its existing NPR SOBC Development Partner contract with PA Consulting Services Limited, in accordance with Regulation 72(1)(c)(i) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended). The NPR SOBC Development Partner provides consultancy services for Transport for the North’s Northern Powerhouse Rail programme. The modification will increase the value of the NPR SOBC Development Partner contract value from £1,230,500 to £1,830,500.
About the supplier
PA Consulting Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00414220).