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 Highland · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Inverness College UHI
- Value
- £311,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Printed matter · Library books (CPV 22113000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 087552-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Apr 2023
- Published16 Sep 2026Published 1245 days after the contract date
Description
The agreement is for the provision of library services. This constitutes the provision of physical library space as well as written resources and also includes electronic support for education and learning such as support for online accounts and online resources.
About the supplier
Inverness College UHI: every public contract they have won.