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
- Oxford City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Embridge Consulting (UK) Limited SME
- Value
- £509,940
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Enterprise resource planning software package (CPV 48451000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 006286-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Dec 2025
- Published23 Jan 2026Published 23 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of Unit4 ERP CR Software as a Service (SaaS) licenses and professional service consultancy support. Mini competition conducted through G-Cloud 14 framework.
About the supplier
Embridge Consulting (UK) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09600193).