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
- Leicester City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Home Group
- Value
- £56,300
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health and social work services (CPV 85000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 016276-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Mar 2025
- Published22 Apr 2025Published 39 days after the contract date
Description
This contract has been awarded under PSR Direct Award Option A. Lifetime value of contract is £56,300.00 Contract duration and dates - 1 April 2025 for 12 months until 31 March 2026 No other provider than the core contract holder has the means to do this effectively. The fact that it is already delivering the Substance Use Housing Related Support Service is a key requirement to the award and means that the provider is the only one that is capable of delivering the required works so a soft market test is not sensible. This is ringfenced funding for this purpose and is cost neutral to the authority. The grant funding is specifically to enhance existing local services rather than set up or bring in new ones, therefore there are no other providers who would be able to fulfil the requirements of the grant and contract. This request represents a continuation of existing work and programmes that the drug and alcohol funding has been supporting for a few years now. Most of the work covered un…
About the supplier
Home Group: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04664018).