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
- Guinness Developments Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Snowdon Homes Ltd SME
- Value
- £8,942,493.13
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Building construction work (CPV 45210000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 025955-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Nov 2025
- Published20 Mar 2026Published 121 days after the contract date
Description
Following the issue of a VEAT notice, Guinness Developments Limited ("GDL") has entered into an agreement for the purchase of land and an associated build contract. This is a traditional land and build "package deal" brought to GDL by land agent MTP Developments Limited, for the construction of new homes by Snowdon Homes Ltd. The scheme will result in the construction of 40 affordable homes on land off Station Road, Oakley, Bedford. It will comprise circa 19 rented and 21 shared ownership properties. MTP Developments purchased the site from a private vendor and the site benefitted from outline planning permission. The package deal was comprised of GDL simultaneously purchasing the land from MTP Developments (an exempt transaction under the Public Contract Regulations 2015), and entering into a JCT Design & Build contract with Snowdon Homes Ltd (which is the subject of this notice) for the services required to obtain full planning permission and then to carry out the construction of ne…
About the supplier
Snowdon Homes Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08983239).