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
- Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Bruynzeel Storage Systems Ltd SME
- Value
- £69,283
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Furniture & domestic appliances · Archive shelving (CPV 39131100)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 005434-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Nov 2025
- Published21 Jan 2026Published 54 days after the contract date
Description
RBG KEW require mobile shelving to accommodate expanding collections in Wing E of the Herbarium at the Richmond site. Rails are pre-installed onsite and a mobile storage solution would need to be compatible with this existing infrastructure. Framework information ESPO Handling Equipment and Steel Shelving Framework 277_24
About the supplier
Bruynzeel Storage Systems Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01846866).