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
- The Children's Endeavour Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Norse Commercial Services SME
- Value
- £1,452,663
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Waste, cleaning & environmental · School cleaning services (CPV 90919300)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 098615-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2026
- Published19 Oct 2026Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
Cleaning Services within 6 schools. Contract is for 3 years with two optional one year extensions.
About the supplier
Norse Commercial Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02888808).