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
- Uttlesford District Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Bytes Software Services SME
- Value
- £538,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · License management software package (CPV 48218000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 020555-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Feb 2026
- Published6 Mar 2026Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
Call-off via mini-competition under the KCS Software Products and Associated Services Framework for Microsoft Licenses
About the supplier
Bytes Software Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01616977).