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
- Home Office · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Axon Public Safety UK Limited
- Value
- £75,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Security, fire & defence equipment · Miscellaneous weapons (CPV 35310000)
- Official notice
- 030287-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Aug 2023
- Published13 Oct 2023Published 66 days after the contract date
Description
The Home Office is creating a Framework Agreement on behalf of the National Policing Lead for Less Lethal Weapons. The Framework Agreement will be open other contracting bodies described in the Contract Notice and includes the Metropolitan Police Authority; Police Crime Commissioners; the Northern Ireland Policing Board; the Scottish Police Authority,, Police Scotland; the Greater London Authority (or a functional body within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999), the Police Forces of the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; Home Office, British Transport Police; Ministry of Defence Police; College of Policing; the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, the National Crime Agency and any other Government department
About the supplier
Axon Public Safety UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07390059).