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
- Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Gleeds Cost Management Limited
- Value
- £4,200,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Calculation of costs, monitoring of costs (CPV 71244000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 055788-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Aug 2025
- Published11 Sep 2025Published 24 days after the contract date
Description
The Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme represents the largest strategic investment in Welsh educational infrastructure since the 1960s. The first wave of investment (Band A) of the Programme was under the banner of ‘21st Century Schools and Education’ and represented a GBP1.6 billion investment over the five-year period ending 2019. This supported the rebuild and refurbishment of more than 170 schools. The second tranche of investment (Band B) began in April 2019. It was expanded to include further education colleges and renamed the ‘21st Century Schools and Colleges Programme’. In January 2022 the Programme was renamed ‘Sustainable Communities for Learning (SCfL)’ to make a clear statement about Welsh Government's commitment towards the environment, community cohesion, and Wales' future generations. This latest Programme will see a further GBP2.3 billion investment in school and college infrastructure utilising both public capital and revenue. The service required by the …
About the supplier
Gleeds Cost Management Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06472932).