World Snooker Championships

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Description

Contract to host the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield at the Crucible Theatre.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• None found

Legal Justification

The Authority relies upon section 41 of the Procurement Act 2023 (the "Act") and paragraph 5 to Schedule 5 of the Act in respect of a direct award justification. World Snooker Limited ("WSL") is the exclusive commercial owner, organiser, promoter and operator of the World Snooker Tour ("WST"), which includes the World Snooker Championship (the "Championship"). WSL exclusively controls and/or administers the sporting, commercial, operational and media exploitation rights connected with the Championship. WSL maintains these rights either directly or pursuant to rights granted by and/or arrangements with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association Limited. WSL exclusively controls the following rights and functions relating to the Championship. WSL has the exclusive right to: • organise, stage and promote the official Championship as part of the official WST calendar; • sanction the Championship as an official professional ranking tournament forming part of the WST structure; • determine and administer the sporting format, qualification structure, player participation criteria and competition rules relating to the Championship; • contract with participating professional players and regulate player participation in the Championship; • negotiate, grant and exploit all domestic and international media, broadcast, streaming and related rights connected with the Championship; • negotiate, grant and exploit sponsorship, hospitality, licensing and other commercial rights connected with the Championship; • appoint official partners, suppliers and stakeholders connected with the Event; • determine the venues and host cities at which the Event may be staged; and • grant host city and hosting rights relating to the Event. The Authority has undertaken comprehensive, independent analysis on the extent to which there are / are not reasonable alternatives to the arrangement that WSL can deliver. The Authority has concluded that there are no reasonable alternatives capable of delivering the Championship (or an equivalent rights package to the Authority). The contract value is above threshold. The Council is still in negotiations with WSL and the contract value shall be included in the Contract Award Notice.

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