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
- Brighton & Hove City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Wealden Leisure Ltd (T/A Freedom Leisure) SME
- Value
- £84,712,500
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Recreation, culture & sport · Sports facilities operation services (CPV 92610000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 061510-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Jun 2010
- Published1 Oct 2025Published 5586 days after the contract date
Description
Contract extension allows the Council to be flexible in its planning and delivery of the new King Alfred Leisure Centre Re-development and the timing of the procurement of a new Operator in respect of the new leisure management contract. Before the end of 2025 the Council intend to put out to tender a new long term leisure management contract opportunity and in parallel will continue to develop the detailed designs for the new facility and submission of a planning application for the future King Alfred Leisure Centre.
About the supplier
Wealden Leisure Ltd (T/A Freedom Leisure): every public contract they have won.