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
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Thales UK
- Value
- £4,000,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Telecoms equipment · Communications infrastructure (CPV 32571000)
- Official notice
- 015307-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 May 2024
- Published14 May 2024Published the same day
Description
CLS of the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Systems
About the supplier
Thales UK: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00868273).