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
- Trafford Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Gamma Network Solutions SME
- Value
- £503,187.37
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Postal & telecoms services · Telecommunications services (CPV 64200000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 037051-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date11 Feb 2026
- Published23 Apr 2026Published 71 days after the contract date
Description
Procurement of an up-to-date unified communications technology / contact centre system to replace current telephony solution. Unified Communications (UC) is a single platform that will consolidate the council's telephony and communication requirements into one single platform including contact centre, voice, video, data, chat, presence, and integration into the MS teams telephony platform.
About the supplier
Gamma Network Solutions: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06783485).