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
- Value
- £1,110,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Security, fire & defence equipment · Unmanned underwater vehicles (CPV 35512400)
- Official notice
- 011425-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Feb 2025
- Published26 Mar 2025Published 26 days after the contract date
Description
Project HECLA has previously procured a stockpile (x125) of disposable oceanographic profiling floats (OPFs) known as the APEX Argo profiling floats and routinely deploys them in support of oceanographic COLLECT. These OPF enables COMOPS to SUSTAIN, ENHANCE, PREPARE and UNDERSTAND the ocean environment globally to build the Oceanographic Intelligence and best deliver assets to effect Theatre Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) in the most critical areas. The requirement to collect Oceanographic data is enduring.
About the supplier
Teledyne Webb Research, a Business Unit of Teledyne Instruments,: every public contract they have won.