Award of Contract for Acoustic Fish Tagging Equipment - University of Aberdeen

Under Under Regulation Reg 33(1)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016, a contracting authority may use the negotiated procedure without the prior publication in the case of a public contract, based on the following justification: Competition is absent for technical reasons (only if it is not caused by artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists).