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
- Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £106,550
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 002320-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Feb 2021
- Published5 Feb 2021Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
The Department of Education Northern Ireland, Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments require specialist support for the development of computer-adaptive tests. This notice is to advise the award of contract to an economic operator to allow for the provision of necessary services required for the contract, due to technical reasons. The Contractor is the sole provider to the software under PCR 2015 regulation 32
About the supplier
The Psychometric Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education: every public contract they have won.