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
- Gentoo Group · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Alscient Ltd SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 033926-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 May 2025
- Published20 Jun 2025Published 38 days after the contract date
Description
Remedial Works – to introduce a series of remedial updates as defined within the original health check report. DevOps – to introduce a DevOps solution along with supporting Automated Testing solution. Integration – introduction of MuleSoft solution to support bidirectional integration with MRI and other internal systems This is a 2 year contract with the option of 2 x 12 month extension. This is for phase 0 - we will be looking to add phase 1 to this contract as an adendum by end of 2025.
About the supplier
Alscient Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07252017).