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
- NHS England · Body governed by public law
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Postal & telecoms services · Telecommunications services (CPV 64200000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 083975-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Apr 2023
- Published17 Dec 2025Published 973 days after the contract date
Description
Direct Award to pay for retrospective BT land line services charges from 2023. Additional information: No other supplier could perform these services at the time due to costs and timelines
About the supplier
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04190816).