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
- Gloucestershire County Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- The Open University SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Personnel-training services (CPV 79632000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 077070-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Nov 2025
- Published26 Nov 2025Published 20 days after the contract date
Description
Social Worker Apprenticeships 25/26 cohorts -via Apprenticeships and Associated Training - 1086
About the supplier
The Open University: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company RC000391).