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
- Business Services Organisation I T S · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Intersystems
- Value
- £73,559
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 006962-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Mar 2024
- Published5 Mar 2024Published the same day
Description
Caché is the technology used for both the NI Child Health System (NICHS) application software and for the NICHS database. The NICHS System is written in and runs on Caché. Without Caché, the system would not exist. The version of Caché used must be compatible with the hardware on which it runs. The support of the licences is required to permit the continued operation of the NI Child Health System (NICHS) and hence the continued delivery of Child Health services to the population of Northern Ireland. Without ongoing support for the licences access to the NHCHS system would not be available.
About the supplier
Intersystems: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company FC013706).