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
- Crown Estate Scotland · Public Corporation
- Supplier
- The Crown Estate
- Value
- £275,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 026145-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Sep 2023
- Published5 Sep 2023Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
Crown Estate Scotland is a manager of seabed resource in Scotland. It leases areas of seabed for a variety of uses including offshore wind, tidal and wave sites. The leases for these uses contain data clauses obliging the tenant to supply to Crown Estate Scotland certain data collected during the planning, development, and operation of their sites. Crown Estate Scotland wishes to store this data and, where applicable, make it publicly available as free open data to safeguard the retention of data and information for industry and future research, to provide other offshore renewable developers with access to data and information to enhance opportunities on the seabed, to work with tenants to promote best practice data and metadata management, and to make available that data and metadata in standard formats meeting required data standards so that it is findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-useable. This is a voluntary ex ante transparency (VEAT) notice. Crown Estate Scotland will e…
About the supplier
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