Contract award · 26 Aug 2023

The Supply of Industrial Gases

Leidos Supply Limited awarded “The Supply of Industrial Gases” to Boc Limited for £14.8m on 26 Aug 2023. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionChemicalsSouth West

Value £14.8m
WinnerBoc Limited

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.

What “without competition” means

Key facts

Buyer
Leidos Supply Limited · Body governed by public law
Supplier
Boc Limited
Value
£14,850,000
Procedure
Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
Sector
Chemicals · Gases (CPV 24100000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date26 Aug 2023
  2. Published28 Jul 2026Published 1067 days after the contract date

Description

Team Leidos are proud to be delivering the logistics commodities and services transformation (LCS(T)) Delivery partner contracts (LCS (T)/0001 dated 16.4.2015) on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (the ‘Prime Contract’). Delivery of other parts of the LCS(T) contract are delivered by Leidos Europe Ltd (LEL) and other partners (together ‘Team Leidos’). This requirement is subject to the Public Procurement Regulations and respective advertising action. Please note this is a Voluntary Transparency Notice, this contract has not been awarded yet. Following the recently advertised tender process (2023/S 000-016058), run under the Open Procedure of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR15), Leidos has concluded that no suitable bids have been received. Two bids were received, both of which fail to meet our minimum requirements. Of the two bids, only one can provide the full range of items required. Leidos have therefore decided to utilise Regulation 32 (2) (a) of PCR15, and plan to mig…

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Other awards in the same procurement

Call-offs and awards published under the same process (for example a framework or dynamic purchasing system).

Date Contract Supplier Value
18 Dec 2023 Boc Limited £10m
26 Aug 2023 Boc Limited £7.4m
26 Jul 2023 Boc Limited £2.6m
26 Jul 2023 Boc Limited £5m
26 Jul 2023 Boc Limited £4.6m
26 Jul 2023 Boc Limited £800k

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