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
- Nourish Care Systems SME
- Value
- £175,040
- 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
- 014952-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Apr 2025
- Published14 Apr 2025Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
The solution must be cloud based, delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or a fully managed hosted service, and functionality should cover: 1. User record management, including configurable user permissions 2. Client record management, including funder details, charge rates and alerts 3. Client portal, enabling the client and family members to view care notes, medication details, vocational profile, summary of service provision, including photographs. 4. Electronic Medication Administration Records (eMAR) 5. Digital forms - including a standard suite of forms, as well as configurable forms, to enable assessments, support planning and activity recording, including a digital body map 6. Attendance registers and transport requirements for clients 7. Mobile app (compatible with Android devices v10 onwards) 8. Reports and dashboards - including a standard suite, as well as configurable reports and dashboards 9. Integration with PowerBI, either directly or via a central data warehouse 1…
About the supplier
Nourish Care Systems: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07556262).