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
- Roke Manor Research
- Value
- £13,323,045
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Repair & maintenance · Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50000000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 009417-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Jan 2025
- Published14 Mar 2025Published 65 days after the contract date
Description
The Specialist EOD&S, Exploitation and Countermeasures Project Team, part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (the Authority) have awarded a contract to Roke Manor Research Limited for the in-service support of Detector Special Purpose (DSP34) (the System). The contract is for 15 months and has an estimated value of £888,203.00 (Ex VAT). This contract was placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 for technical reasons. The VTN was published on 21 October 2024 and the contract was subsequently awarded on 08 January 2025.
About the supplier
Roke Manor Research: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00267550).