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
- The City of Edinburgh Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- British Telecommunications PLC
- Value
- £3,500,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Installation services · Installation services of line telephony equipment (CPV 51340000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 053787-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Sep 2025
- Published4 Sep 2025Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), including copper analogue services currently provided by Openreach, is ceasing. All PSTN services are required to transition to a digital solution before Openreach ceases all analogue provision (presently scheduled for January 2027, although exchanges will close before that date). Throughout the City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) estate, the current analogue service is to be provided for as long as possible, whilst the Council identifies lines required and solutions for a future upgrade to a digital service. The Council intend to novate analogue fixed lines from O2 and Enterprise Broadband lines from CGI, so all analogue services are with a single provider, in preparation for entering the market for a full digital solution. To ensure services continue to be provided to the circa 1,500 lines which support telephones, lifts, alarms, traffic lights and other infrastructure currently on an analogue line, we require BT to continue to suppo…
About the supplier
British Telecommunications PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01800000).