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
- Simulation Solutions SME
- Value
- £365,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Research, testing and scientific technical simulator (CPV 38970000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 035048-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Nov 2023
- Published28 Nov 2023Published 5 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 Simulation Solutions to purchase a Six Station Knee Simulator. The equipment is a bespoke electro-mechanical knee simulator, designed and manufactured to meet the University of Leeds’s specification and requirements for the wear testing of knee prostheses and meets required compatibility with existing equipment, so that datasets remain consistent with previously published work.
About the supplier
Simulation Solutions: every public contract they have won.