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
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Kainos Software Limited SME
- Value
- £175,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT software development services (CPV 72212517)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 035117-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Apr 2026
- Published17 Apr 2026Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
Dashboard and Application for EAF
About the supplier
Kainos Software Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company NI019370).