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
- The City of Edinburgh Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Forth Resource Management Ltd SME
- Value
- £6,049,915
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Agricultural & horticultural services · Composting services (CPV 77120000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 016457-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Apr 2025
- Published23 Apr 2025Published the same day
Description
The Council has a requirement for receipt and composting of garden waste. The proposal of a five year term call off from a Scotland Excel Framework which the Council is a member organisation, provides optimal operational certainty in service and price taking account of the whole life cost related to this service model.
About the supplier
Forth Resource Management Ltd: every public contract they have won.