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
- South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Insight Direct (UK) Ltd
- Value
- £248,514.45
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 030468-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2026
- Published1 Apr 2026Published the same day
Description
Centurion is the Complaints and Discipline System used within Professional Standard departments at both Humberside and South Yorkshire Police. The system is used to record matters such as Business Interests, gratuities and complaints. Force Information Systems (FIS) are the software providers of Centurion and as such are the only source of expertise and technical skills required to support the system. Although alternative systems are available on the market the Centurion software is one of the leading in this area and already well embedded within both Forces. Both Professional Standards departments have recently upgraded to the latest versions of the software and invested in health checks with FIS who have fed back ways of improving the use of the system moving forward. In addition there has been no desire to move away from Centurion as the cost of implementing a new system, training relevant staff and competing data migration is prohibitive at this time. This is a 3 year contract, vi…
About the supplier
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02579852).