Completion of Commissioned Archaeological Projects

Description

This Voluntary Ex-Ante (VEAT) Notice relates to the intended procurement for the completion of already commissioned archaeological projects. The contract duration is for a maximum of 24 months.

Key facts

Procedure

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Lots

1

Contact

procurement@hes.scot

+44 1316688866

Category

services

Awarded suppliers

• EASE Archaeology · GB-FTS-187736 · UKM65

Ground given for limiting competition

The buyer’s own stated reason for awarding without open competition, as published. Their assertion, not a finding.

HES intends to award to the Supplier on the basis that competition is absent for technical reasons. The original commission projects were provided by the contractror who still store and curate the assemblage. Given the nature of the services described in II.2.4 of this notice, the contractor is the original excavators of these sites, their knowledge of what has been found is unparalleled, and as they are not published, the information which another contractor would require to store and manage the collection is not in the public domain at present.