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
- West Yorkshire Combined Authority · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- NATS (Services) Ltd
- Value
- £449,582
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Transport support & travel · Air-traffic control services (CPV 63732000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 006829-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Feb 2024
- Published4 Mar 2024Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The National Police Air Service (NPAS) were set an objective by the Home Office to review the feasibility of a future 'blended' fleet of crewed and uncrewed aircraft which would support policing operations. NPAS are now in the planning stages of an uncrewed aircraft trial. The trial will be carried out from the NPAS Almondsbury base, in a volume of airspace extending approximately 30 kilometres around the base. The launch site is located underneath controlled airspace which is part of the Bristol airport airspace system. All air activity here requires oversight by Bristol air traffic control. NATS is the Air Navigation Services Provider (ANSP) at both Bristol and Cardiff Airports. Under licence from the CAA they provide services to aircraft operating under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) in controlled airspace (Class A, C, D and E) and in uncontrolled Airspace (Class G) in around the airspace at both Bristol and Cardiff airports. This includes services to c…
About the supplier
NATS (Services) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04129270).