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
- The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Phoenix Software Limited SME
- Value
- £10,600,871.55
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · License management software package (CPV 48218000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 023055-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Mar 2026
- Published13 Mar 2026Published 8 days after the contract date
Description
A price only further competition via Health Trust Europe . The cost per year is shown in the supplementary comments below.
About the supplier
Phoenix Software Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02548628).