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
- The Council of the Borough of Kirklees · Regional or local agency/office
- Supplier
- Sycous Limited SME
- Value
- £1,318,149
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Public utilities · Meter reading service (CPV 65500000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 036634-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Mar 2026
- Published22 Apr 2026Published 30 days after the contract date
Description
The scope of the procurement includes: 1. The purchase, installation and commissioning of 1,042 payment meters. 2. Billing and Metering Services of the 1,042 payment meters. The purchase and installation of new payment meters is a one-off purchase at the start of the contract. The Billing and Metering Services is a re-occurring provision to facility the day-to-day administration for residents such as top ups and availability credit, credit control & Debt recover, repairs and maintenance & tariff reviews.
About the supplier
Sycous Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08836039).