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
- Liverpool City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- West Mercia Energy
- Value
- £51,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Fuel & energy · Mains gas (CPV 09121200)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 034161-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Sep 2025
- Published15 Apr 2026Published 215 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of Electricity and Gas via broker Npower Commercial Gas Limited (Power) TotalEnergies Gas & Power Limited (Gas) https://westmerciaenergy.co.uk/
About the supplier
West Mercia Energy: every public contract they have won.