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
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Level Peaks Associates SME
- Value
- £11,000,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Clothing & footwear · Flying clothing (CPV 18132000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 007382-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Mar 2024
- Published7 Mar 2024Published the same day
Description
1. The Air Commodities Delivery Team (ACDT) within Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), part of the UK Ministry of Defence, (“the Authority”) intends to award a Contract to Level Peaks Associates Ltd (LPA) (“the Contractor”) for the provision of continuing support of the Body Armour Load Carriage System (BALCS) for the Air Defence Environment. 2. The contract will be for a maximum of seven (7) years. The estimated contract value is circa £11M. 3. The purpose of the Contract is to procure, upgrade and maintain the current equipment provided by a through life Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) solution including but not limited to Servicing, Post Design Services & Maintenance.
About the supplier
Level Peaks Associates: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06379641).