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
- Citizen Housing Group Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Menzies LLP
- Value
- £600,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Auditing services (CPV 79212000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 100649-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Oct 2026
- Published23 Oct 2026Published the same day
Description
The procurement route to market is a direct award GCA (Government Commercial Agency) framework for Audit and Assurance Services 2, lot 2 external audit and lot 4 other independent assurance.
About the supplier
Menzies LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC336077).