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
- Blackpool Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Miles Macadam Limited SME
- Value
- £4,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Construction work for highways, roads (CPV 45233100)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 078579-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Nov 2025
- Published1 Dec 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
An award has been made using the LCRIG Innovation Procurement System via the SPARK DPS. The process will provide an innovative solution to Blackpool and should have a provable reduction in carbon emissions compared to traditional methods of greater than 25%. The contract will run until March 2027 with the option to extend for a further 1 plus 1 years.
About the supplier
Miles Macadam Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03031039).