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
- Transport Scotland · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- CalMac Ferries Limited
- Value
- £3,900,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Transport services · Ferry transport services (CPV 60610000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 019928-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 May 2025
- Published9 May 2025Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
This VEAT notice sets out the intention of the Transport Scotland (TS) on behalf of Scottish Ministers to award to CalMac Ferries Limited (CFL) a 10-year public contract for the delivery of the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services (CHFS3 Contract). TS has undertaken an extensive review of the provision of the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services (CHFS). As part of that review, the current governance arrangements for CHFS are being amended. The CHFS3 Contract is going to be awarded to CFL on the basis of those amended arrangements.” The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (as amended) (Regulations) do not apply to the procurement because TS is awarding the CHFS3 Contract pursuant to the exemption for “in-house” contractual arrangements provided for in Regulation 13(1)(a) of the Regulations. The scope of the CHFS3 Contract includes the provision of ferry and associated services on the CHFS network. The CHFS network covers the west coast of Scotland, from Campbeltown in the south to S…
About the supplier
CalMac Ferries Limited: every public contract they have won.