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
- Nottingham City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Freeths LLP
- Value
- £1,300,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Legal services (CPV 79100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 064345-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 May 2025
- Published10 Oct 2025Published 136 days after the contract date
Description
Housing disrepair services awarded. Adopt an alternative delivery module for all existing and new housing disrepair claims. The route to market will be compliant with the Council's Contract Procedure Rules; this procurement will avail itself of the exclusion in Regulation 10(d) Public Contract Regulations 2015.
About the supplier
Freeths LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC304688).