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
- Isle of Wight Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Ricoh UK Limited
- Value
- £1,187,263.29
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Office & computing equipment · Photocopying and offset printing equipment (CPV 30120000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 083140-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Dec 2025
- Published16 Dec 2025Published the same day
Description
Please note that the VEAT notice - 2025/S 000-079456 (published 03 December 25 and concluded midnight on 15 December 25) relates also to the previous VEAT notice - 2024/S 000-013904 published on 30 April 2024. The intention is to set out clearly what our position has been and will be until 31 July 2027. The whole life cost set out here includes the values set out in the previous VEAT notice (which itself was a total of £1,089,915.95) The publication of the recent VEAT notice started the standstill period which concluded at midnight on 15 December 2025. The intention is then to arrange contract signing for the start on 01 February 2026.
About the supplier
Ricoh UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01271033).