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 Gloucestershire · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Churchill Environmental Services
- Value
- £300,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Public utilities · Operation of water supplies (CPV 65130000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 070048-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Jul 2026
- Published24 Jul 2026Published the same day
Description
Annual servicing and reactive maintenance for the organisation's hot and cold-water distribution systems, including bi-annual risk assessments, City Campus closed system heating - sample and analysis, closed system chilled water - sample and analysis and maintenance of two ornamental ponds at Oxstalls Campus. This procurement was completed via a further competition via Westworks BMC DPS
About the supplier
Churchill Environmental Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05455787).