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
- Blackpool Council · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd
- Value
- £385,023
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Hardware consultancy services (CPV 72100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 007751-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Jan 2026
- Published28 Jan 2026Published the same day
Description
Award via YPO consultancy plus framework reference 1141 - notice reference - 2023/S 000-020592 - To provide strategic, technical, commercial, and stakeholder advisory support to accelerate delivery of the Project - a public-private partnership to establish an AI-ready, net-zero data centre campus and associated clean energy and digital infrastructure cluster.
About the supplier
Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06903140).