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
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- The Access Group
- Value
- £594,884.15
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 001437-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Dec 2025
- Published8 Jan 2026Published 8 days after the contract date
Description
A direct award was undertaken under the YPO Framework, Software Application Solutions 0010095 Lot 11
About the supplier
The Access Group: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02343760).