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
- Leidos Supply Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Firemark Ltd SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Security, fire & defence equipment · Firefighting equipment (CPV 35111000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 044401-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Feb 2025
- Published30 Jul 2025Published 174 days after the contract date
Description
The General Supplies Team, which forms part of Leidos Supply Ltd is planning to enter negotiated procedure for the Supply of Historical Spares – List B for Firefighting Equipment on behalf of the UK MOD. Public Contract Regulation 32.—(1) In the specific cases and circumstances laid down in this regulation, contracting authorities may award public contracts by a negotiated procedure without prior publication. General grounds (2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:— (a)where no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or a restricted procedure, provided that the initial conditions of the contract are not substantially altered and that a report is sent to the Commission where it so requests;
About the supplier
Firemark Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06299361).