29th December 2012, 06:34 PM
Theoretically. Only tender invitations worth over £100,000 are actually obliged to be advertised in the standard EU publication (Official Journal of the European Union) though. I'm pretty sure that if a non-UK EU-based company fancied tendering for the Swansea job then they could oblige the council to permit their application on an equivalent quality measure. How many such organisations exist, remains to be seen.