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
- London Borough Of Islington · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £210,115.14
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 72210000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 009094-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Sep 2024
- Published12 Mar 2025Published 163 days after the contract date
Description
The LMS should be able to work with any self-service technology we implement, working with RFID security systems. The system will be SIP2 compliant. The system should have a totally integrated database, e.g. data only input once and present from the acquisitions stage, with no duplication or transfer of data required between potentials/acquisitions/circulation. Customer online access (OPAC) should be available 24 hours-per- day, 7 days-a-week. The system must be compatible with touch screen operation on tablets and smart phones and resize for both. It must be operable without use of function keys on these devices. The system must also have the ability to use apps (such as Solus).
About the supplier
Education Software Solutions Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 12595779).