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
- Education Authority · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Irwins ME Ltd SME
- Value
- £4,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Building construction work (CPV 45210000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 051297-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Jul 2025
- Published26 Aug 2025Published 34 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of Planned Maintenance and Response Works for EANI across its property portfolio in the old Western Education and Library Board area, Contract Lot 3 which includes but is not limited to controlled and uncontrolled schools
About the supplier
Irwins ME Ltd: every public contract they have won.