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 Planning Inspectorate · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Haymarket Media Group SME
- Value
- £79,995
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- Business services · Subscription services (CPV 79980000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Feb 2025
- Published17 Feb 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
315 licences for Inspectors, Knowledge Officers, Operation Support Staff and Press Officers to ensure they are kept informed of developments within the Planning sector and able to search for and obtain old decision letters which have either been referred to by case parties or used by Inspectors for training and knowledge when carrying out similar cases themselves. Planning Resource an online independent information resource for planning professionals in the UK, collating information from across Haymarket Media Group's built environment team including Planning, Development Control Practice (DCP Online) and COMPASS appeals database. Updated daily, the site provides planning professionals with essential news, analysis, appeals, policy, data and reference guides. Users can also subscribe to daily email bulletins. It also includes monthly digital edition of Planning's Appeals and Legal Casebooks. Each issue includes: Key ministerial and inspector's decisions summarised, The latest court ca…
About the supplier
Haymarket Media Group: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00267189).