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
- Forestry and Land Scotland · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Soil Association Certification Ltd SME
- Value
- £147,180
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Business services · Auditing services (CPV 79212000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 015302-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 May 2024
- Published14 May 2024Published 12 days after the contract date
Description
Certification body services for auditing and and surveillance of organisational policies, procedures and practices against the current UK Woodland Assurance Standard (UKWAS). As UKWAS meets both of the forest management certification schemes: the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).
About the supplier
Soil Association Certification Ltd: every public contract they have won.