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
- Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Calder Conferences
- Value
- £22,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Miscellaneous business and business-related services (CPV 79900000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 090810-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Mar 2026
- Published25 Sep 2026Published 208 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of venue booking services for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), including the sourcing and management of external venues to support meetings, training events, workshops, conferences, and other business activities.
About the supplier
Calder Conferences: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03702902).