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
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · NHS
- Supplier
- Holman Fleet Limited
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Vans (CPV 34136000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 024810-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Mar 2026
- Published18 Mar 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
This contract award notice is being published to begin the associated standstill period with regards to the direct award of an above threshold contract to Holman Leasing Limited for the purchase of a DAF Trucks Box Van that the Trust were leasing from a supplier that has entered into administration. Reg 32 (5) (d) - Additional grounds relevant to public supply contracts (5) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public supply contracts— (d) for the purchase of supplies or services on particularly advantageous terms, from either a supplier which is definitively winding up its business activities, or the liquidator in an insolvency procedure, an arrangement with creditors, or a similar procedure under national laws or regulations.
About the supplier
Holman Fleet Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02170148).