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
- Sunderland City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Phoenix Software Limited SME
- Value
- £47,100
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software support services (CPV 72261000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 035648-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Apr 2026
- Published20 Apr 2026Published the same day
Description
Sunderland City Council has awarded a contract for the Provision of Managed Reactive IT Support Service and Managed IT Transformation Service. The contract is for a period of 12 months, which is due to commence on 1st May 2026. The above contract was awarded via the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) G-Cloud 14 Framework (RM1557.14).
About the supplier
Phoenix Software Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02548628).