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
- Department for Work and Pensions · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Mitie Security Limited
- Value
- £24,390,784
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Security services (CPV 79710000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 042028-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Sep 2025
- Published7 May 2026Published 248 days after the contract date
Description
The SCC facility is a combination of an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC), Remote Video Receiving Centre (RVRC) and other centralised security functions. The SCC will provide a central facility for receiving alarm notifications, monitoring Video Surveillance System (VSS) images, utilising radio and other communication technologies, and controlling the response to emergency incidents. The SCC will provide the services twenty-four (24) hours per day, 365 days per year.<br/><br/>For Clarity and avoidance of doubt:<br/>This Contract was published on Contracts finder and is being reproduced on FTS in order to publish a Reg 72 PCR2015 modification to it.
About the supplier
Mitie Security Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01013210).