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
- Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Geoff Smith Associated Ltd
- Value
- £118,203.32
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 021626-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Mar 2026
- Published11 Mar 2026Published the same day
Description
G Cloud 14 Direct Award - 2+1 Contract Period Commences 05/09/2025 - 04/09/2027 - Option to extend for a further year
About the supplier
Geoff Smith Associated Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03342175).