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
- SSE plc · Utilites
- Suppliers
- Not named
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Procurement consultancy services (CPV 79418000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 051455-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 May 2026
- Published1 Jun 2026Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
provision of price adjustment mechanisms (PAMs) consultancy support for SSEN – Transmission’s Big 11 schemes, to aid and facilitate the Employer’s lifecycle management of inflation within the following Contract work packages: • BBNC BPNC (Beauly to Peterhead) • BDUP (Beauly to Denny) • BLN / SLU4 (Beauly to Spittal) • TKUP (Tealing to Kintore) • Argyll • EGL2 • EGL3 • Orkney • Skye • Spittal to Peterhead • Western Isles The Employer’s objectives are to: • Be able to make informed decisions about the suitability and application of PAMs for individual work packages. • Provide a cost range projection to the regulator within its project assessment submissions. • Manage and mitigate inflationary risk in each individual work package. • Provide accurate capex forecasting, mapping the impact of inflation on each individual work package and the wider project. • Ensure recovery of inflationary impact from the regulator is maximised.