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
- Department for Transport · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- AA Global Language Services Limited SME
- Value
- £248,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Translation services (CPV 79530000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 072945-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Nov 2025
- Published11 Nov 2025Published 8 days after the contract date
Description
Services to provide translation and transcription services. This contract is critical to our ability to respond to requests from across the department for translations and transcriptions for; departmental announcements, corporate guidance/consultations and national marketing campaigns.
About the supplier
AA Global Language Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04299764).