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
- Islington · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Locta Limited SME
- Value
- £1,500,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 013853-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Apr 2025
- Published9 Apr 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Islington Council has a contract with Locta Limited for the supply of a specialist IT software system supporting the council’s No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Connect, the national casework and immigration status checking service. The software is approved by the Home Office and is used by Islington Council and a further 88 local authorities nationwide to access the NRPF Connect service. Islington Council is publishing the Voluntary Transparency Notice to inform that it will vary the agreement with the supplier to further develop the IT system to support two new integral modules to the NRPF system. Development of the system will in part be funded with an explicit grant from the Home Office for this purpose. The modules being developed are: • RTPF Checker service - A national digital immigration status checking service, the development of which is funded by a Home Office grant. The RTPF Checker will support national eVisa roll-out by allowing subscribing organisations to ‘look-up’ a …
About the supplier
Locta Limited: every public contract they have won.