"As part of that process we are currently negotiating a directly awarded contract for First Great Western to continue running services.
However, research undertaken by ERRAC and the UITP found that 17%% of the urban rail systems in Europe are operated without a public service contract, and of the remaining 83%%, only 17%% of those contracts were awarded after having been put out to tender, the rest being directly awarded [37].
In the past months, the military has been directly awarded several projects by the government, the latest of which has been the mega project of the Suez Canal expansion, which will be partially executed by the army.
Indeed, business is directly awarded to a repair shop through its membership in the CollisionSyzygy network.
(db) in the case of directly awarded public service contracts, the competent authority shall provide adequate reasons for its decision to award the contract directly.
See the justification for Amendment 4. 1. Competent authorities may decide, on a case-by-case basis, to directly award public service contracts for services with an estimated average annual value of less than EUR 250 000.
Operators of public passenger transport services, and operators directly or indirectly controlled by them, shall not be authorised to participate in competitive tenders as provided for in Article 6 when they have been directly awarded public service contracts in their own country.
The whole purpose of the regulation must in no case be undermined by internal operators passing on the major part of their directly awarded transport services to subcontractors to the exclusion of competition and thus turning themselves into a purely management operation.
2. Competent authorities may decide, on a case-by-case basis and subject to paragraph 3, to directly award public service contracts for metro or light rail services if any other arrangement would entail additional costs for maintaining coordination between the operator and the manager of the infrastructure, and if those costs would not be offset by additional benefits.
In the case of a public service contract directly awarded to a small and medium sized enterprise operating not more than 20 vehicles, these thresholds may be increased to either an average annual value estimated at less than EUR 1,7 million or when they concern the annual provision of less than 500 000 kilometres of public passenger transport services.
