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
- London Borough of Enfield · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £7,500,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Recreation, culture & sport · Recreational, cultural and sporting services (CPV 92000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 017540-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Feb 2026
- Published26 Feb 2026Published 23 days after the contract date
Description
The Council is currently under Contract with Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL, trading as Better) to operate our Leisure Centres (Albany Leisure Centre, Edmonton Leisure Centre, Southbury Leisure Centre, and Southgate Leisure Centre), along with Arnos Pool and Bramley Bowls Centre. Edmonton Leisure Centre is in need of urgent works to restore the building. The Council has directly awarded this provision to GLL for the works to be funded in part by the Council and in part by GLL, and assign the lease to GLL on condition that GLL provides a public leisure centre. Given this will be treated as a separate entity, Enfield will be removing the Centre from the aforementioned list. The other leisure centres will be subject to a full procurement exercise, with interested parties encouraged to engage in a forthcoming market engagement exercise shortly.
About the supplier
Greenwich Leisure Limited Trading as Better: every public contract they have won.