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
- Nick Rebbeck (CBRN - MOD) · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Southern Scientific Ltd
- Value
- £384,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Security, fire & defence equipment · Nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological protection equipment (CPV 35113200)
- Official notice
- 006489-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Feb 2024
- Published29 Feb 2024Published the same day
Description
The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) team, part of the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), intends to place a contract with Teledyne-Flir via Southern Scientific for the provision of MICROBISM. MICROBISM is a project strand under LC3i which aims to address the disclosing capability to characterise both the level and extent of CBR (Chemical, Biological, Radiological) hazards in order to inform hazard avoidance and incident management. This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis, and is published for reasons of transparency. If you are interested in becoming a sub-contractor for this requirement, you should apply directly to the supplier named above.
About the supplier
Southern Scientific Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01800317).