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
- £46,145.68
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Networking, Internet and intranet software package (CPV 48200000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 030525-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2026
- Published1 Apr 2026Published the same day
Description
The PNC gateways facilitate our applications to interface with the Police National Computer. Sharing information with other forces and receiving information that would otherwise not be available. The contract is also for the purchase of the NDi additional gateway for ANPR, to include the initial licence cost, installation and year 1 cost. Future iterations of this project will aim to put a multi-year contract in place, but currently Ndi will only quote year-on-year.
About the supplier
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02579852).