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
- Council of the City of Wakefield · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Blackhawk Network EMEA Ltd.
- Value
- £19,013,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Financial & insurance services · Banking services (CPV 66110000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 056646-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Sep 2025
- Published15 Sep 2025Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
The provision of supermarket vouchers and the distribution of virtual pre-paid energy cards using the Household Support Grant. Wakefield Council has conducted a direct award procurement process, via the CCS Framework RM6248 Payment Solutions Lot 2 and Lot 3 Framework under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
About the supplier
Blackhawk Network EMEA Ltd.: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04155659).