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
- Merseytravel · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Howards Travel Services SME
- Value
- £279,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Transport services · Transport services (excl. Waste transport) (CPV 60000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 041190-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Dec 2024
- Published18 Jul 2025Published 218 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of Subsidised Bus Services for Lot 1 T5599 Lot 2 T5600 Contract start date: 27.10.24 Contract end date: 06.09.26 With the option to extend the contracts up to a total period of 3 years.
About the supplier
Howards Travel Services: every public contract they have won.