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
- Ridge and Partners LLP SME
- Value
- £135,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Building surveying services (CPV 71315300)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 028743-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Jan 2025
- Published27 Mar 2026Published 436 days after the contract date
Description
Undertaking of Decent Homes stock condition surveys to residential properties owned and managed by RBC
About the supplier
Ridge and Partners LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC309402).