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 of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- DLA Piper UK LLP SME
- Value
- £120,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Legal advisory services (CPV 79111000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 046844-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Aug 2025
- Published7 Aug 2025Published the same day
Description
To appoint an industry led PRO which will be delegated relevant functions by PackUK to support with ongoing delivery of the pEPR scheme. Legal support is required to assist with the appointment process of a PRO. There are four main phases to the work:<br/><br/>• Prepare the proposed conditions of appointment<br/>• Prepare the appointment process<br/>• Run the appointment process and select the candidate PROs<br/>• Confirm conditions of appointment and appoint the PRO<br/><br/>As PackUK and the 4 nations agree which functions are to be delegated to the PRO and in which years, these will in turn need to be set out in conditions of appointment. The greater the responsibilities delegated to the PRO, the more robust the appointment process will need to be, so legal support will be used to assist with the design, drafting of application documentation, and the subsequent assessment of applications. <br/><br/>Given the possibility of multiple applications, Defra is working on the basis that a…
About the supplier
DLA Piper UK LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC307847).