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
- Richmond Housing Partnership · Housing Association
- Supplier
- Lumensol Ltd SME
- Value
- £2,580,857
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Business and management consultancy services (CPV 79410000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 035180-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Mar 2026
- Published17 Apr 2026Published 23 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of managed service support for Richmond Housing Partnership's in-house repairs service, including responsive repairs, customer contact centre, void re-let services, complex case management, commercial management, health and safety, finance support and business intelligence/reporting services
About the supplier
Lumensol Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11349433).