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
- Northumbria Police · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Contego Environmental Services Limited SME
- Value
- £157,700
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Sector
- Waste, cleaning & environmental · Pest-control services (CPV 90922000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Oct 2025
- Published23 Oct 2025Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
The Civil Contingency Act 2004 places a legal requirement on Northumbria Police to develop a business continuity plan. As a Category 1 responder, the Act requires that plans be maintained to ensure that the Force can continue to deliver critical aspects of its day-to-day functions in the event of internal or external factors impacting upon its liability to provide these functions. The need to provide pest control services forms a critical part of the response to these plans and it is the role of the pest control maintenance contractor to provide all-year-round pest control services both scheduled and reactive to ensure that pests are controlled to comply with the Act. The pest control services will cover all Northumbria Police owned and leased sites both internally and externally including any ancillary buildings or land within their boundaries. Buildings and sites vary in terms of size and layout and are located between Houghton-Le-Spring in the South to Berwick Upon Tweed in the Nor…
About the supplier
Contego Environmental Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06854998).