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
- Midlothian Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Bellway - Scotland East
- Value
- £17,273,201
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses (CPV 45211000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 091065-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Sep 2026
- Published25 Sep 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
In terms of Midlothian Council’s affordable housing policy, it is noted that the Penicuik area is one of the Council’s locations with high demand. As a result the Council requires to secure land within the Penicuik area to assist with meeting that demand and policy ambition and to deliver its Affordable Housing Supply Programme. The area of land at Auchendinny Penicuik owned by BELLWAY HOMES LIMITED incorporated under the Companies Acts, (Registered Number 00670176), having its Registered Office at Woolsington House, Woolsington, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE13 8BF (“the Sellers) fits with that policy ambition. The contract for the purchase of land is an excluded contract under Regulation 11(1) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (2015 Regulations). The Sellers have included as a condition of the sale of its land that the Council is required to enter into a construction contract with the Sellers for the construction of 75 social rented units on the land being acquired. Witho…
About the supplier
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