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 College of West Anglia · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Babelquest Services SME
- Value
- £218,764.80
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software support services (CPV 72261000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 010948-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Mar 2025
- Published24 Mar 2025Published the same day
Description
A bespoke solution to connect our student journey into a single platform based on the supplier's existing HubSpot Education Framework, and customise it to connect to other College systems to enable secure data sharing with different departments, including B2B, Higher Education, Apprenticeships, Events and alumni management.
About the supplier
Babelquest Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07190490).