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
- Defra Network eTendering Portal · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- North Devon Biosphere Foundation SME
- Value
- £232,113.22
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development consultancy services (CPV 73200000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 037820-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Mar 2023
- Published22 Dec 2023Published 296 days after the contract date
Description
– focus on specific elements or likely building blocks of the new schemes. They will be short, low risk, involve limited funding, few participants and will be explorative and iterative. (For example a workshop or structured interviews could be used to test a land management plan).
About the supplier
North Devon Biosphere Foundation: every public contract they have won.