Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- North West Regional College · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Unit 4 Business Software Ireland Limited SME
- Value
- £475,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 000269-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Jan 2021
- Published7 Jan 2021Published the same day
Description
The Department of Economy, North West Regional College, on behalf of all FE Colleges Northern Ireland, require software maintenance of their current software Licences to ensure that licences are maintained and access to the current versions is available . This notice is to advise the proposed award of contract to an economic operator to allow for the provision of necessary services required for the contract, due to technical reasons and for reasons connected with the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights . The Contractor is the sole provider to the software under PCR 2015 regulation 32.
About the supplier
Unit 4 Business Software Ireland Limited: every public contract they have won.