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 Justice · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Kuehne + Nagel Limited
- Value
- £910,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Transport support & travel · Storage services (CPV 63121100)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 015449-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Feb 2025
- Published16 Apr 2025Published 56 days after the contract date
Description
Workshops in various prisons across the UK manufacture furniture for prison expansion projects. There was a business need to store these items of furniture, which is what the procurement project concerned. The quantities involved were storage of 500 to a maximum of 3,500 pallets across the contract term of 12 months (with the option to extend the contract term for a further 3 months).
About the supplier
Kuehne + Nagel Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01722216).