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
- Construction Industry Training Board · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Institute for Employment Studies SME
- Value
- £330,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research services (CPV 73110000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 072866-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Jul 2026
- Published31 Jul 2026Published 8 days after the contract date
Description
CITB’s Skills & Training in the UK Construction Industry survey has been running since 2008; this iteration of the survey will be the eighth wave. The original survey was commissioned because although there was a wealth of surveys1 on employers skill needs both within the construction industry and nationally; it was thought that none of these provided data representative of the whole construction industry. This year we would like to further develop the Skills & Training survey to incorporate analysis from other relevant surveys (such as those discussed above) on skill issues and commitment to workforce development. Thereby creating an effective single source of evidence representative of the current issues regarding skills and training within the UK construction industry. Without commissioning this research, there would be a gap in the evidence base which is used by CITB to make key strategic decisions. Additional information: procurement was run from a tender in 2024 from framework C…
About the supplier
Institute for Employment Studies: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00931547).