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
- Historic Environment Scotland · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Leica Geosystems
- Value
- £445,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Repair & maintenance · Repair and maintenance services of precision equipment (CPV 50430000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 085314-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Aug 2026
- Published9 Sep 2026Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) intends to award this contract under the conditions of regulation 33.4.b(ii) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) regulations. The Contract will include maintenance services for digital scanning equipment used within the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP). The scope of the maintenance services provided will include: - Annual on-site preventative hardware maintenance - Software updates - Spare parts - Customer support
About the supplier
Leica Geosystems: every public contract they have won.