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
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £600,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Interpretation services (CPV 79540000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 019804-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Mar 2026
- Published5 Mar 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (the Council) has awarded a contract with a single provider Premium Linguistics Services under Lot 1 of the ESPO Framework 402_24 to deliver a fully managed, high quality, timely and accessible end-to-end language services solution.
About the supplier
Supreme Linguistic Services T/A Premium Linguistic Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09340464).