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
- Guinness Developments Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- GEDA Construction
- Value
- £13,205,217
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Building construction work (CPV 45210000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 012107-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Mar 2025
- Published31 Mar 2025Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
Guinness Developments Limited ("GDL") intends to enter into a build contract with GEDA Construction Company Limited ("GEDA"). This scheme is a traditional land and build "package deal" brought to GDL by GEDA, which will result in the construction of 64 affordable rented homes on land off Chesterfield Road, North Wingfield, Derbyshire. GEDA have arranged to purchase the site from the local authority (Derbyshire County Council) and have completed initial design work up to RIBA stage 3. The package deal will be comprised of GDL entering into a JCT Design & Build contract for the construction of the new homes on the land with GEDA (which is the subject of this notice), and a simultaneous purchase of the land from GEDA by The Guinness Partnership Ltd., GDL's parent company (an exempt transaction under Procurement Act 2023). The contracting authority for the build contract under under PA2023 will be Guinness Developments Ltd. GDL is a subsidiary of The Guinness Partnership Ltd. (TGPL) but i…
About the supplier
GEDA Construction: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company NI016265).