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
- Look Ahead Care and Support · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Unit4 Business Software Limited SME
- Value
- £772,781
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Financial systems software package (CPV 48442000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 038796-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Jun 2025
- Published10 Jul 2025Published 22 days after the contract date
Description
Call Off Contract under G Cloud 14 Framework Agreement for a Finance system and support, for an initial period of three years, with an optional extension of a further one year. Therefore total potential contract length is four years. The Contract was awarded under the G-Cloud 14 framework agreement. Under this framework there is the option for direct award, where the buyer has short listed suppliers and evaluated the most appropriate supplier from the CCS website.
About the supplier
Unit4 Business Software Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01737985).