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
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Trimax Technologies Ltd
- Value
- £2,868,856.34
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Bomb detectors (CPV 38546100)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 034726-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Oct 2023
- Published23 Nov 2023Published 31 days after the contract date
Description
The Specialist EOD&S, Exploitation and Countermeasures Project Team, part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (the Authority) awarded a contract to Trimax Technologies Ltd (Trimax) for the supply of high accuracy aiming systems (the System) along with associated training. The contract is for 7 years and has an estimated value of £409,836.62 (Ex VAT). This contract was placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 for technical reasons. The VTN was published on 04 October 2023 and the contract was subsequently awarded on 23rd October 2023.
About the supplier
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