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
- Stoke-on-Trent City Council · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £82,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Fuel & energy · Solar energy (CPV 09330000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 082534-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Dec 2025
- Published12 Dec 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
This Voluntary Transparency Notice (published under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015) is published in order to provide transparency of the intended modification. The Council does not consider that by the proposed variation it will be awarding a new contract for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The modification involves the inclusion of the Council's corporate portfolio of buildings and two ground mount installations to increase the carbon reduction potential of the scheme and involves entrance into: 1. A Project agreement with a CES group entity for rooftop solar PV systems on Council corporate buildings, under which the parties may enter into leases for access and rights to undertake the design, installation, maintenance and operation of rooftop solar PV systems on Council owned buildings and power purchase agreements under which the Council will purchase electricity generated from the rooftop solar PV systems and 2. A Project Agreement with a CES group ent…
About the supplier
Community Energy Scheme Stoke Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11304944).