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
- Southampton City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Firntec Ltd
- Value
- £650,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Structural engineering consultancy services (CPV 71312000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 024698-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Mar 2026
- Published18 Mar 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Direct award via the Procure Public Building Safety Consultancy Framework which expires 02/09/2028 - Contract Notice 2024/S 000-020673 Award Notice 2024/S 000-025344. This direct award has been completed due to Where you have an existing relationship with the Contractor/Consultant. Where the Call Off has substantial similarities to a previous project the Contractor/Consultant was involved with (under this Framework Agreement or not). For reasons of urgency, where it is not reasonably practical to award the Call-Off Contract by way of a Mini-Competition.
About the supplier
Firntec Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13460282).