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 Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- MHR
- Value
- £709,397
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Enterprise resource planning software package (CPV 48451000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 033490-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Nov 2023
- Published13 Nov 2023Published the same day
Description
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) proposes to enter into a contract with Midland HR (MHR) for the provision of their iTrent HR and Payroll software package. This contract will provide Ofsted with a continued subscription to iTrent following the successful migration to the cloud version of the system in 2022.
About the supplier
MHR: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01852206).