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
- London Borough of Hackney · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Royal Mail
- Value
- £432,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Postal & telecoms services · Postal and telecommunications services (CPV 64000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 091458-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Aug 2026
- Published28 Sep 2026Published 28 days after the contract date
Description
The essential Collection and Delivery of letters and parcels, including the logging and tracking of recorded and special delivery items. Additional information: This Contract Award Notice relates to a direct award call-off under an established framework agreement. Section II.2.5 has been populated with a placeholder value (Price: 100) solely to satisfy the technical schema validation constraints of the ProContract portal. The contract has been awarded strictly according to the objective direct award call-off terms set out in the original framework agreement.
About the supplier
Royal Mail: every public contract they have won.