Contract award · 3 Sep 2025

Purchase of 5 caged 3.5 tonne tipper vehicles

Dacorum Borough Council awarded “Purchase of 5 caged 3.5 tonne tipper vehicles” to Car Hire (Days of Swansea) T/as Days Rental for £158k.

No competitionVehicles & transport equipmentEast of England

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.

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Key facts

Buyer
Dacorum Borough Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£157,500
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Vehicles & transport equipment · Refuse-collection vehicles (CPV 34144511)
Timeline
  1. Contract date3 Sep 2025
  2. Published16 Oct 2025Published 43 days after the contract date

Description

We are currently hiring the tippers from the company and we were given the opportunity to purchase them resulting in rental costs savings.

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