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
- Cheshire West and Chester Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Essency Consulting SME
- Value
- £51,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Highways consultancy services (CPV 71311210)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 083393-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Sep 2026
- Published3 Sep 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The consultant will provide essential continuity of leadership within a critical statutory service, ensuring effective oversight of highways operations, capital investment programmes, major contractual arrangements, network management duties, flood risk responsibilities, emergency response arrangements and the Council's wider highways and infrastructure portfolio pending recruitment of a permanent postholder
About the supplier
Essency Consulting: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05308156).