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
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Fitzgerald Contractors Ltd SME
- Value
- £1,137,657.95
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Construction work (CPV 45000000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 009708-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Nov 2023
- Published17 Mar 2025Published 475 days after the contract date
Description
Direct Call off the Minor Civil Engineering Works 2021-24 Framework agreement
About the supplier
Fitzgerald Contractors Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01536747).