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
- University of Leeds · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Hitachi High-Tech Europe GmbH
- Value
- £470,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Spectrometers (CPV 38433000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 030502-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Oct 2023
- Published16 Oct 2023Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
This is a voluntary ex ante transparency (VEAT) notice, indicating that The University of Leeds intends to enter into a contract with Hitachi to purchase an Electron energy loss spectrometer (EELS) for installation on a Hitachi SU9000 scanning electron microscope. Hitachi are the only manufacturer providing EELS systems dedicated for their Hitachi SEMs.
About the supplier
Hitachi High-Tech Europe GmbH: every public contract they have won.