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
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Freshworks Inc
- Value
- £340,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 006794-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Nov 2025
- Published26 Jan 2026Published 63 days after the contract date
Description
Direct call-off via G-Cloud 14 Framework Lot 2 – Cloud Software
About the supplier
Freshworks Inc: every public contract they have won.