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
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Dun & Bradstreet Ltd
- Value
- £25,978
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Data management services (CPV 72322000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 028428-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date27 Feb 2026
- Published27 Mar 2026Published 28 days after the contract date
Description
As a government department, we are required to publish our annual targets for spend with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs). To ensure we can report this information accurately, we have established a contract with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), who provide specialist services to classify our suppliers against these categories.<br/>D&B was selected through the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) G‑Cloud framework. In line with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR2015), a direct award was made for this below threshold procurement as 'competition is absent for technical reasons'.
About the supplier
Dun & Bradstreet Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00160043).