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
- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Cowater UK Limited
- Value
- £18,324,192
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Public administration & defence services · Provision of services to the community (CPV 75200000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 007259-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date22 Feb 2017
- Published26 Feb 2025Published 2926 days after the contract date
Description
This notice relates to the extension of Trade and Investment Advocacy Fund (TAF2 Plus) contract, which aims to improve the skills of the world’s poorest developing country governments to effectively participate in international trade negotiations, particularly at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
About the supplier
Cowater UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11373728).