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
- Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Livetec Systems Ltd SME
- Value
- £35,000
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Sector
- Agriculture & forestry products · Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products (CPV 03000000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Mar 2025
- Published27 May 2025Published 61 days after the contract date
Description
AHDB are seeking quotes for a project partner to run a series of pig producer facing workshops to work on individual contingency plans in preparation for a possible incursion of African Swine Fever (ASF). This project forms part of a wider area of work concerned with preparing the English pig and pork industry for a potential outbreak ASF is a viral disease of pigs which represents a significant and growing threat to the British pig and pork sector. AHDB has been working with the National Pig Association and other industry partners on ASF prevention and awareness and has recently delivered two pilot workshops to producers in partnership with a contingency planning specialist. The aim has been to enable individual producers to work with continency planning experts and their own vets to create bespoke contingency plans. These pilots have been successful and AHDB intends to roll the programme out more widely and offer producers across England the chance to attend a workshop.
About the supplier
Livetec Systems Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07427051).