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
- The Guinness Partnership Ltd · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Stanmore Contractors Limited SME, PRP Architecture LLP SME
- Value
- £31,467,292 across 2 lots
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction materials · Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus) (CPV 44000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 011770-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Jan 2023
- Published25 Apr 2023Published 103 days after the contract date
Description
The Guinness Partnership had an urgent requirement to enter into contracts to deliver a government-funded external wall system remediation project on one of our housing estates. The Sutton's Wharf scheme in London is comprised of four buildings - Grand Regent Tower, Graphite Point, Titanium Point and Regalia Point; the original external wall system installed on the scheme has been identified as no longer being compliant with Building Regulations (unsafe non-ACM external wall systems) and as such presents an ongoing safety risk to the residents of our buildings. Guinness has been granted c.£26m of funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC)'s Building Safety Fund (BSF) (non-ACM buildings) to carry out emergency works to remove the existing external wall system and retrofit a compliant solution, to ensure the safety of the tenants and leaseholders living in these buildings. The BSF bid required that specific contractors and consultants were named as part …
Lots in this award
| Lot | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|
| External Wall System (EWS) Remediation Works - Sutton's Wharf: External Wall System (EWS) Remediation Works | Stanmore Contractors Limited SME | £30.5m |
| External Wall System (EWS) Remediation Works - Sutton's Wharf: Architectural Design of EWS Remediation Project | PRP Architecture LLP SME | £1m |
About the suppliers
Stanmore Contractors Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02754550).
PRP Architecture LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC431021).