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
- Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Unite Procurement UK SME
- Value
- £160,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health and social work services (CPV 85000000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 086786-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Mar 2025
- Published14 Sep 2026Published 542 days after the contract date
Description
Solihull has awarded a contract for the supply of E-cigarettes as part of the stop smoking quit aids to support pharmacotherapy and behaviour change and Solihull's Stop Smoking Service. This is a below threshold awarded without competition via framework. Start date: 1 April 2025 End date: 31 March 2029 Contract period: 4 years Contract value: Up to £160,000
About the supplier
Unite Procurement UK: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08627563).