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 Edinburgh · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Belmont Medical Technologies Ltd
- Value
- £199,990
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Incubators (CPV 33152000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 004909-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Mar 2021
- Published11 Mar 2021Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Under Regulation Reg 33(1)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, a contracting authority may use the negotiated procedure without the prior publication in the case of a public contract, based on the following justification: Competition is absent for technical reasons (only if it is not caused by artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists);
About the supplier
Belmont Medical Technologies Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10460858).