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
- Newcastle City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Sysco GB Limited (Brakes)
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Food & drink · Animal products, meat and meat products (CPV 15100000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 045473-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Jul 2025
- Published4 Aug 2025Published 17 days after the contract date
Description
Frozen food for Schools and Welfare Centres after the departure of Hopwells. NEPO carried out the project to enable a new supplier to be awarded onto their framework. It is now called Frozen Food Lot 1 on NEPO407 Framework.
About the supplier
Sysco GB Limited (Brakes): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02035315).