Notice Information
Notice Title
Schools Insurance 2025/2026
Notice Description
Insurance policy for maintained schools for 2025/2026
Procurement Information
Discussions have taken place with the other insurers in the market and none of these companies offer or are willing to offer a fixed per pupil cost model with no excess and without the exchange technical underwriting information. This would therefore fall under an exception through Clause 50 of the Public Contracts Directive 2014 (EU/2014/24) which provides that where the situation of exclusivity is due to technical reasons, they should be rigorously defined and justified on a case-by-case basis. They could include, for instance, a near technical impossibility for another economic operator to achieve the required performance, or the necessity to use specific know-how, tools or means which only one economic operator has at its disposal. Technical reasons may also derive from specific interoperability requirements which must be fulfilled in order to ensure the functioning of the works, supplies or services to be procured. As the Council cannot leave schools uninsured this direct award would fall under this section as currently there is only one economic operator it has at its disposal who can deliver the services to our requirements.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04f90a
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011363-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
66 - Financial and insurance services
-
- CPV Codes
66510000 - Insurance services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £573,000 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 26 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 26 Mar 202511 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Tim Dent
- Contact Email
- tim.dent@sheffield.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 01142053646
Buyer Location
- Locality
- SHEFFIELD
- Postcode
- S1 2HH
- Post Town
- Sheffield
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLE3 South Yorkshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLE32 Sheffield
- Delivery Location
- TLE32 Sheffield
-
- Local Authority
- Sheffield
- Electoral Ward
- City
- Westminster Constituency
- Sheffield Central
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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