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
- Department for Business & Trade · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Post Office
- Value
- £71,500
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Miscellaneous business-related services (CPV 79990000)
- Official notice
- 007276-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Feb 2025
- Published26 Feb 2025Published 12 days after the contract date
Description
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is commissioning Post Office Limited to search its inventories for information related to 325 prosecutions, collate the data according to the criteria outlined below, and produce a comprehensive report of the findings.
About the supplier
Post Office: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02154540).