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
- Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Unibox SME
- Value
- £12,652.94
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Electrical services (CPV 71314100)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 086361-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Aug 2025
- Published29 Dec 2025Published 132 days after the contract date
Description
Providing LED lightboxes framing services to artists The Singh Twins for several years.
About the supplier
Unibox: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04562879).