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
- UK Shared Business Services Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Bright Horizons Family Solutions Limited SME
- Value
- £7,400,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
- Sector
- Health & social care · Child daycare services (CPV 85312110)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Mar 2019
- Published2 Apr 2026Published 2559 days after the contract date
Description
UK Shared Business Services Ltd acting on behalf of the Contracting Authority have put in place a Contract to provide a nursery services at the Little Star's Nursery at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). This Contract has been awarded under Regulation 32 (2) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) in the cases listed below : • No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to open procedure were received. Explanation: UK Shared Business Services Ltd carried out an open competition on behalf of the Contracting Authority for the nursery services at the Little Star's Nursery at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the publication notice number in OJEU is: 2019/S 041-093480. No suitable tenders were received in response to the open procedure therefore under Regulation 32 (2)(a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) the Contracting Authority awarded a contract by negotiated …
About the supplier
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