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
- City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Costain Limited
- Value
- £2,083,333
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Engineering services (CPV 71300000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 034894-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Apr 2026
- Published16 Apr 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council has awarded a contract for the provision of Highways Services Strategic Delivery Partner (SDP4) services. The services comprise the provision of strategic, technical and professional consultancy support to the Council's highways and transport functions, including programme and project management, commercial and contractual support, governance and assurance, business case development, and specialist engineering and advisory services. The contract supports the Council's delivery of its highways capital and operational programmes and ensures continuity of service, resilience of delivery capability and compliance with relevant assurance and funding requirements. The contract was awarded via a direct award under the Crown Commercial Service RM6165 Construction Professional Services Framework (Lot 1).
About the supplier
Costain Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00610201).