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
- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Cowater International
- Value
- £7,677,885
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Public administration & defence services · Foreign economic-aid-related services (CPV 75211200)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 058956-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Mar 2021
- Published23 Sep 2025Published 1665 days after the contract date
Description
This Notice corrects an error in value of the contract as published under notice 2025/S 000-058840. This is a voluntary ex ante transparency (VEAT) notice. This notice is to indicate that the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) proposes to extend the contract with the named supplier for the Technical Assistance (TA) Facility to strengthen Rwanda's Social Protection Sector: Exiting Poverty Rwanda Programme in a manner that is necessary to support a responsible exit from the programme . This contract extension will increase the contractual value by £1.8m as set out in the original contract and a 15 month time extension. The Technical Assistance facility provides technical expertise and capacity building to the Government of Rwanda and support the effective implementation of its Social Protection Sector Strategic Plan (SP-SSP) and ultimately a strengthened national social protection system, as well as the delivery of FCDO's Exiting Poverty in Rwanda (EPR) programme which ai…
About the supplier
Cowater International: every public contract they have won.