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
- Sunderland City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Unite Procurement UK Ltd SME
- Value
- £220,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Food & drink · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products (CPV 15000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 077877-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Nov 2025
- Published27 Nov 2025Published 26 days after the contract date
Description
Swap to Stop Sunderland for Vapes and Associated Consumables via Crown Commercial Services Tail Spend (RM6202) (Call Off) (1st November 2025 to 31st March 2028). Purchase of vapes and associated consumables to enable Swap to Stop Sunderland, with the aim to integrate the use of vapes as a stop smoking aid across all commissioned stop smoking services and other funded community-based projects. The Council therefore requires access to a range of vapes starter kits and associated consumables to meet the need within Sunderland.
About the supplier
Unite Procurement UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08627563).