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
- University of Southampton · Higher Education Institution not subject to PCR15 or any replacement legislation
- Supplier
- Bunzl UK Ltd
- Value
- £2,500,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Soap (CPV 33711900)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 062189-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Sep 2025
- Published3 Oct 2025Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
The requirement under this call-off contract is for the appointed supplier to provide consignment cleaning consumable stock, placing it at agreed University locations, under the control of the supplier with payment becoming due at a time after the goods are withdrawn from the consignment stores. The appointed supplier will own, manage and distribute a minimum/maximum core list of cleaning materials and products to 39 stores across the University's various sites in Southampton and Winchester.
About the supplier
Bunzl UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02902454).