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
- Cornwall Council · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £29,178,009
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Railway maintenance or service vehicles, and railway freight wagons (CPV 34621000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 006832-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Feb 2024
- Published4 Mar 2024Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
An Implementation Agreement with respect to the ‘Mid-Cornwall Metro Enhancement Scheme’ to develop infrastructure enhancements aimed at supporting an increase in train services on the Newquay Branch, extending services on to the Cornwall Main Line and on to the Falmouth Branch line. The work builds on feasibility work and a strategic outline business case (SOBC) for Mid-Cornwall Metro for which £1.5m was awarded to the project through the DfT’s ‘Restoring your Railway’ programme A FBC was submitted by Network rail to DfT at the end of March 2023 with GRIP 3 and 4 activities due to be completed by the summer of 2023. The Project seeks to enable service levels on the branch line to increase from 8 trains a day in each direction to 1 train per hour between Newquay and Par. This will subsequently support the introduction of an hourly direct service linking the urban centres of Newquay, St Austell, Truro, Penryn and Falmouth. One of the objectives of the Mid-Cornwall Metro scheme is the de…
About the supplier
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02904587).