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
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Burges Salmon LLP
- Value
- £1,187,500
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Legal advisory services (CPV 79111000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 070284-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Oct 2025
- Published3 Nov 2025Published 10 days after the contract date
Description
Legal support for the SAC commercial team, for a total period of 19 months.
About the supplier
Burges Salmon LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC307212).