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
- £27,167,193
- 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
- 061833-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date13 Mar 2024
- Published2 Oct 2025Published 568 days after the contract date
Description
This notice is to indicate that the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) proposes to extend the contract with the named supplier for the Tax System Transformation programme (TSTP) operating in Ethiopia in a manner that is necessary to support Ethiopia’s tax reform programme. The contractual extension would run for 24 months from its current proposed end date of 13 March 2026 up to 13 March 2028. The anticipated expenditure in the period between 13 March 2026 and 13 March 2028 will be up to £4,843,000 (which therefore falls within the contract’s financial headroom, with FCDO having spent only £18,005,643 of the £27,167,193 value of this contract to date). This notice constitutes a Voluntary ex ante notice under regulation 99 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Authority considers that the award of this contract modification is permitted under regulation 72(1)(b) of those Regulations, and therefore subject to publication of a notice under that provision, however t…
About the supplier
Cowater International: every public contract they have won.