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
- University Of Edinburgh · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Axion Biosystems Inc
- Value
- £210,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Electrical equipment & lighting · Miscellaneous data recorders (CPV 31644000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 007603-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Dec 2024
- Published3 Mar 2025Published 73 days after the contract date
Description
Competition is absent for technical reasons, but only where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.
About the supplier
Axion Biosystems Inc: every public contract they have won.