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
- Great British Energy - Nuclear · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Phoenix Software Limited SME
- Value
- £464,308.93
- 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
- 012612-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Jul 2025
- Published11 Feb 2026Published 196 days after the contract date
Description
GBN sought a modern, scalable, and secure Requirements Management System capable of acting as the system of record for GBN and its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) projects. The RMS will support requirement definition, traceability, verification & validation, project assurance, and data lifecycle integrity across GBN and future DevCos. The system must integrate with GBN’s digital estate, support secure collaboration with supply chain partners, and comply with UK data residency and cyber‑security requirements.
About the supplier
Phoenix Software Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02548628).