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
- DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial · National or federal agency/office
- Value
- £12,100,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Public administration & defence services · Administration services (CPV 75100000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 017748-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Apr 2025
- Published29 Apr 2025Published the same day
Description
Unforeseen delays to the procurement of Delivery Partner 2 (PIN Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-028336) have resulted in a gap in service coverage for Grant Recipients (GRs) of the Warm Homes: Local Grants (WH:LG) and Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund schemes. The schemes will collectively issue £1.8bn of grant funding; the Authority cannot permit those funds to be issued to grant recipients in the first year of delivery without adequate support and oversight to ensure value for money, adherence to grant issuing conditions and mitigation of the risk of fraud and error. The service gap for in-delivery support between the respective schemes launches (April 2025) and the award and mobilisation of DP2 (TBC – indicative date of early 2026) must be addressed. DESNZ therefore requires a variation to be made to the TAF 2 contract to enable Turner & Townsend to address that service gap via an Interim Delivery Model (IDM). The contract variation is required to enable the provision of an estimated 1…
About the supplier
Turner and Townsend Consulting Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03154483).