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
- Police And Crime Commissioner For Durham · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- EDF Energy Customers PLC
- Value
- £11,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Public utilities · Electricity distribution and related services (CPV 65300000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 014969-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Mar 2025
- Published14 Apr 2025Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
Direct award from NEPO301 The NEPO Electricity Framework provides users with access to an electricity supply contract and associated services to non-domestic sites. This includes sites that are settled on the Half Hourly (HH), non-Half Hourly (NHH) and Unmetered Supply (UMS) market. The framework can be joined by individual sites or, more commonly, a public sector organisation's full estate. This framework is currently being used by local authorities, schools and academies, emergency services and higher education organisations. Contract covers existing MPAN and reviewed annually with site validation. Sites can be added or removed. UNDER PCR 2015 REGULATIONS
About the supplier
EDF Energy Customers PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02228297).