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
- DESNZ Group Commercial · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Capita Business Services ltd
- Value
- £9,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Public administration & defence services · Administration services (CPV 75100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 056553-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Sep 2025
- Published15 Sep 2025Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
The arrangement type is a contract. In March 1995, following privatisation of the coal industry, HM Government inherited a legal obligation to certain former employees of the coal industry to fulfil a contractual legacy entitlement to an amount of solid fuel or cash-in-lieu of that fuel. This contract covers matters such as fraud and error, irrecoverable losses, instructions on solid fuel entitlements and management of cash entitlements.
About the supplier
Capita Business Services ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02299747).