Official UK procurement notice
Publication of Statutory Notices
Authority: City & County of Swansea (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAdvertising Public Notices is a compulsory and statutory requirement and South Wales Evening Post is the only media to meet the Welsh Government Public Notice criteria. Annual spend projected 2024/25 is 103,800(GBP), cumulative total below 617,500(GBP) since October 2015.
CPV: Advertising services
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Advertising Public Notices is a compulsory and statutory requirement and South Wales Evening Post is the only media to meet the Welsh Government Public Notice criteria. Other media has insufficient readerships and circulations in reach to the Swansea community: hence the larger amount is spent annually with the South Wales Evening Post (SWEP).
Projected spend 2024/25 is 103,800(GBP).
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Mar 2024, 15:33 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Mar 2024, 15:33 GMT
- Authority reference
CCS/23/414- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-008876- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044a77Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Advertising Public Notices is a compulsory and statutory requirement and South Wales Evening Post is the only media to meet the Welsh Government Public Notice criteria. Other media has insufficient readerships and circulations in reach to the Swansea community: hence the larger amount is spent annually with the South Wales Evening Post (SWEP)
It is the Council’s position that other media has insufficient readerships and circulations in reach to the Swansea community to make the assessment that the South Wales Evening Post (SWEP) are the only provider of these services and on this basis, the Council can meet the requirements of Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) which permits the use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication to award public service contract where competition is absent for technical reasons.
Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) applies where there is no reasonable alternative or substitute and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. The Council has considered the market and there are no reasonable alternative of providers with the sufficient readerships and circulation required and as such there is no artificial narrowing down of the parameters on the part of the Council.
The Council will hold a standstill period in accordance with Regulation 87.
Publisher note: (WA Ref:140046)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastContracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Reach PlcAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.