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 Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Virgin Media o2
- Value
- £1,200,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Wide area network services (CPV 72720000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 013820-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Jan 2026
- Published16 Feb 2026Published 21 days after the contract date
Description
Wide area network services.
About the supplier
Virgin Media o2: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13047827).