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
- Gloucestershire County Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Tarmac Trading
- Value
- £24,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads (CPV 45233000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 017123-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Feb 2026
- Published25 Feb 2026Published the same day
Description
The modification is required to ensure continuity of services and to allow more time for a procurement process to be developed in respect of a longer-term replacement contract which better reflects the requirements of the emerging Local Government Reorganisation position. The modification is necessary because: • The Authority requires continuity of service while undertaking market review and preparing a compliant procurement procedure. • The need for the extension could not reasonably have been foreseen during the original procurement. • The extension does not exceed thresholds that would render it substantial. The works are part of the structural maintenance programme for Gloucestershire County Council and will be ordered by Task Order for each individual package/scheme. Works to consist of structural repairs to the County Network including planing off existing surfaces and replacement to the various depths and layers required by the design of each scheme. Works will also include min…
About the supplier
Tarmac Trading: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00453791).