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
- NHS Counter Fraud Authority · Health Authority
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £47,475
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 013594-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2025
- Published8 Apr 2025Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
To reduce Information and Cyber Security Risk by providing improved visibility, classification, access governance, exposure identification and management of NHSCFA data, improving the NHSCFA response to incidents affecting data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).