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
- Department of Education · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- INEQE Safeguarding Group
- Value
- £170,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 001111-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jan 2021
- Published19 Jan 2021Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
The Department of Education require access to the safeguarding app as this provides information and messaging on a full range of safeguarding and child protection issues with tailored versions of the app for teachers, parents as well as children & young people (separate primary and post primary versions). This app has significantly increased the Department’s communications with schools, pupils and parents and enables schools to communicate directly with specific groups, link directly to the latest Government guidance, for example on COVID -19 and complement our existing social media accounts.
About the supplier
INEQE Safeguarding Group: every public contract they have won.