Contract award · 9 Feb 2025

Direct Award

Post Office awarded “Direct Award” to Archus Limited for £25,000 on 9 Feb 2025. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionBusiness servicesLondon

BuyerPost Office
Value £25,000
WinnerArchus Limited SME

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.

What “without competition” means

Key facts

Buyer
Post Office · Body governed by public law
Supplier
Archus Limited SME
Value
£25,000
Procedure
Other - Direct Award
Sector
Business services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (CPV 79000000)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date9 Feb 2025
  2. Published25 Feb 2025Published 16 days after the contract date

Description

Direct Award. Hard and soft services to be benchmarked are as follows: • Contract management (client/account manager, reporting and monitoring, governance and approvals, QSHE, procurement, back of house functions, finance etc). • Service portal (is versus should be) • Hard FM services, including specialist services • Soft FM services, including cleaning, waste, office managed services, security concierge etc.

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