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
- Citizen Housing Group Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Ecotricity Ltd. SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Fuel & energy · Electricity (CPV 09310000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 032571-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Mar 2026
- Published9 Apr 2026Published 9 days after the contract date
Description
The procurement has been conducted by Citizen's energy supply specialist broker Equity Energies who utilised their own DPS to run a tender competition.
About the supplier
Ecotricity Ltd.: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03043412).