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
- Gedling Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Flowbird Smart City UK Limited SME
- Value
- £91,898.05
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 062081-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Jun 2026
- Published2 Jul 2026Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
Delivery, installation and commissioning of 8 solar-powered Flowbird Strada ticket machines (pay & display), including contactless and coin payment. Provision of back-office services, maintenance, servicing, and merchant services for card transactions
About the supplier
Flowbird Smart City UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04869035).