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
- Kingston Upon Hull City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Ricoh UK Limited
- Value
- £180,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Printing and related services (CPV 79800000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 088217-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Sep 2026
- Published17 Sep 2026Published 16 days after the contract date
Description
Hull City Council (The Authority) varied it's existing contract with Ricoh UK Limited for the provision and management of the Council's Multi-Functional Device (MFD) fleet for a further 12 months from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2027, to provide continuity of the existing service while the Council completes the procurement and mobilisation of its new managed service requirement.
About the supplier
Ricoh UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01271033).