Schools Insurance 2025/2026 · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Sheffield City Council (Local council)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Financial and insurance services (66) Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber (UKE32)

Awarded value£573,000published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 26 Mar 2025no call for competition

Awarded to Zurich Municipal

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Insurance policy for maintained schools for 2025/2026

CPV: Insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber

66510000 Insurance services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

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: 26 Mar 2025, 15:19 GMT
Last source update: 26 Mar 2025, 15:19 GMT
Authority reference: 97893
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-011363
Classification (CPV): Insurance services
Delivery area: Yorkshire & Humber (UKE32)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04f90a Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
Published justification: 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.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £573,0001 contract exc. VAT

Bids received 2

Contracts signed 1latest 26 Mar 2025

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Zurich Municipal	£573,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Schools Insurance 2025/2026 · Zurich Municipal
Signed
26 Mar 2025
Value
£573,000
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
2bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Sheffield City Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services (GB) 173 5488 38 Town Hall, Pinstone Street, , Sheffield, Yorkshire & Humber, S1 2HHContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Zurich MunicipalAwarded supplier Fareham, UK

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.