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
- 021893-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Sep 2025
- Published11 Mar 2026Published 162 days after the contract date
Description
Transport Scotland (TS) on behalf of Scottish Ministers was awarded to CalMac Ferries Limited (CFL) a 10-year public contract on a rolling basis 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 governance arrangements for CHFS were amended. The CHFS3 Contract was awarded to CFL on the basis of those amended arrangements. The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (as amended) (Regulations) do not apply to this 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 Stornoway in the north. The CHFS network is curren…
About the supplier
CalMac Ferries Limited: every public contract they have won.