Contract award · 24 Apr 2024

Carents Room - Phase 2

Northern Gas Networks Limited awarded “Carents Room - Phase 2” to Strata Nostra Ltd for £1.88m on 24 Apr 2024. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionResearch & developmentNorth East

Value £1.88m
WinnerStrata Nostra Ltd SME

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.

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Key facts

Supplier
Strata Nostra Ltd SME
Value
£1,882,408
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date24 Apr 2024
  2. Published30 Apr 2024Published 6 days after the contract date

Description

A contract is being awarded to Stratra Nostra to deliver "The Carents Room" project. This aims to reach 1 million potential Carents in the UK, this ambition agreed between Cadent and NGN in October 2021. There are currently an estimated 5 million Carents nationally. They are the largest group of unpaid carers and growing rapidly in the face of our ageing population. The Carents Room is an interactive, online website for Carents to access anywhere in the UK and receive instant online support. The objectives of this project are: - To have an interactive online website for 1 million Carents during the course of the project to access instant support, energy advice and health information - Ability to be able to register an account with The Carents Room to access additional service and support - Direct users to findmygdn.co.uk to identify their GDN and link to relevant websites to generate 5000 Priority Service Registrations (PSR) per annum. Using a referral code to enable GDNs to track how…

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