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
- Reading Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- HLS Mcconnell Limited
- Value
- £135,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Scaffolding work (CPV 45262100)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 028388-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2025
- Published27 Mar 2026Published 177 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of temporary scaffolding surrounding the units at Wensley Road in order to provide fire exits to all floors of the buildings
About the supplier
HLS Mcconnell Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC191842).