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
- Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Saarstahl Rail SAS
- Value
- £826,098.17
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Railway-track construction materials and supplies (CPV 34946000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 029714-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date9 Oct 2023
- Published9 Oct 2023Published the same day
Description
The provision of a one-off trial supply of R260 (60E2 profile) steel rails, produced using Electric Arc Furnace (Green Steel), for the purpose of research and development
About the supplier
Saarstahl Rail SAS: every public contract they have won.