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
- Trowers and Hamlins LLP
- Value
- £30,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (CPV 79000000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 012140-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Nov 2023
- Published1 Apr 2025Published 508 days after the contract date
Description
Direct Award - EM Lawshare Framework 2022-26
About the supplier
Trowers and Hamlins LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC337852).