Supply and delivery of rock salt for spreading on highways for de-icing carriageways and footways.

Procurement Act 2023

Direct award A competitive tendering procedure is the default for most public procurements. The Department may only directly award a public contract when Section 41 (and one or more of the justifications in Schedule 5), Section 42 or Section 43 apply. There are derogations to award a contract to a single supplier where the supplies or services can only be supplied by a particular supplier. Schedule 5, Para 6; the following conditions are met in relation to the public contract: • due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and • there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works)