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
- Department for Transport · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Avenca
- Value
- £17,630
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research services (CPV 73110000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 015393-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Apr 2025
- Published15 Apr 2025Published the same day
Description
Development and support of MAIB VDR facility by Avenca, who in conjunction with MAIB research the download and analysis of data from Voyage Data Recorders (VDRs) and host the information on a web server. Avenca also provide MAIB with support and maintenance of their VDR analysis related facilities and software.
About the supplier
Avenca: every public contract they have won.