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
- North Somerset Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Comensura Limited SME
- Value
- £16,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Community & personal services · Services of commercial and industrial workers (CPV 98510000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 004987-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Aug 2025
- Published20 Jan 2026Published 145 days after the contract date
Description
Supply of Temporary Agency Workers via a neutral vendor model.
About the supplier
Comensura Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04085767).