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
- The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Vodafone Limited
- Value
- £3,300,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 002674-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Mar 2020
- Published9 Feb 2021Published 340 days after the contract date
Description
The email relay service enables users of the PSN to communicate securely with each other and third parties via email. Users comprise multiple public sector bodies across central government and the wider public sector (e.g. local government). The email filtering services are used by the same user group and scan PSN email communications for dangerous content such as suspicious website links and spam email. The extension will be awarded to Vodafone. This is legacy technology and a previous further competition to replace the technology provided in this lot attracted no bidders. Service continuity is required to enable transition of remaining users to open market replacement solutions.
About the supplier
Vodafone Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01471587).