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
- Cardiff Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Borley Engineering Services Ltd SME
- Value
- £88,689,065.77
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Construction work (CPV 45000000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 082370-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Nov 2024
- Published12 Dec 2025Published 400 days after the contract date
Description
The scope of the project includes the construction of three new build schools so as to: - Replace the Cantonian High School buildings with new build accommodation on the same site expanding the school from six forms of entry (6FE) to eight forms of entry (8FE) with sixth form provision for up to 250 pupils; - Expand the Specialist Resource Base (SRB) for learners with an Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), hosted at Cantonian High School from 20 to 30 places in purpose built accommodation in the new school buildings; - Relocate Woodlands High School to the Fairwater Road site from its current site adjacent to Trelai Park and increase the capacity from 140 places to 240 places in new build accommodation; - Relocate Riverbank Special School to the Fairwater Road site from its current site adjacent to Trelai Park, and increase the capacity from 70 to 112 places in new build accommodation.
About the supplier
Borley Engineering Services Ltd: every public contract they have won.