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
- Cell Therapy Catapult Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Bip Solutions Limited SME
- Value
- £78,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Procurement software package (CPV 48490000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 020669-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Feb 2025
- Published12 May 2025Published 76 days after the contract date
Description
Cell and gene therapy catapult (CGTC) require a supplier for an E- procurement portal system. The system will play a crucial role in advertising procurements and contract management. The system must enable compliance with the procurement regulations 2024 and other public procurement policies. The system will be used across multiple sites of CGTC, by the procurement teams. The e-procurement system should cover the whole tender procedure from the automatic publication of notices, (in accordance with the procurement act 2023) to the award process, and allow add-on modules for e-auction, dynamic purchasing system, contract management and evaluation systems.
About the supplier
Bip Solutions Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC086146).