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
- SE Trains Limited
- Suppliers
- Not named
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Transport services · Public transport services by railways (CPV 60210000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 011019-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Mar 2025
- Published25 Mar 2025Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
The Authority currently has a live contract with the supplier for the provision of rail operations services and intends to directly award an extension to this contract, combining an option for migrating safety and operationally critical rostering to the supplier's software solution. The duration of this contract extension shall have a term of three years, with two further years permitted as optional extensions to be exercised at the discretion of the Authority based on the readiness of any replacement solution.