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
- The Guinness Partnership Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Iron Mountain (UK) Limited
- Value
- £350,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Document management services (CPV 72512000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 083698-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Aug 2026
- Published4 Sep 2026Published 34 days after the contract date
Description
Document archiving, retrieval and information management, warehousing and logistics.
About the supplier
Iron Mountain (UK) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01478540).