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
- Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (Utility) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- CalMac Ferries Limited
- Value
- £67,440,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Transport support & travel · Port and waterway operation services and associated services (CPV 63721000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 063715-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Sep 2025
- Published9 Oct 2025Published 16 days after the contract date
Description
CMAL intends to award the HOA3 to CFL following the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a call for competition under regulation 48 of the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016. Regulation 48(1)(c)(ii) is applicable in this case due to the unique position of CFL as the lifeline ferry services operator under CHFS3, due to which competition for HOA3 is absent for technical reasons. Both HOA3 and CHFS3 involve the performance of harbour based duties at CMAL harbours: The harbour operating duties include: assessing navigational safety in the harbour, vessels mooring operations, operating pier equipment, inspecting harbour assets and reporting on defects, management of navigation, collection of third party harbour charges, liaison with third party tenants and harbour users, housekeeping (including cleaning slipways, cleaning ladders, weed-killing, septic tank emptying, potable water testing), managing waste at the harbours (generated on the harbour and from vessels),…
About the supplier
CalMac Ferries Limited: every public contract they have won.