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
- Essex Cares Limited · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- MAS Group SME
- Value
- £348,300
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 014914-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Apr 2025
- Published14 Apr 2025Published 10 days after the contract date
Description
The Services include: • The software functionality is detailed on ww.carelinelive.com. Within the procurement process, CareLineLive have submitted responses to Essex Cares' enquiries about the functionality achievable by CareLineLive and not all the requirements listed in Schedule 1 of the Agreement are provided for by the current CareLineLive solution. Responses detailed in Schedule 1 of the Agreement. • Unlimited Management Platform (scheduling system) licences. • 1050 Carer Companion mobile app licences. • Unlimited Care Circle (Family Portal) licences. • Real only access to the database associated with the 'live' CareLineLive environment for Essex Cares Limited. • 1 x additional CareLineLive environment to be used for testing/learning ('staging' environment). • All initial onboarding and training for the usage of CareLineLive • All day to day support for the usage of CareLineLive.
About the supplier
MAS Group: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07915812).